CVE-2010-3973
Description
The WMITools ActiveX control in WBEMSingleView.ocx 1.50.1131.0 in Microsoft WMI Administrative Tools 1.1 and earlier in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted argument to the AddContextRef method, possibly an untrusted pointer dereference, aka "Microsoft WMITools ActiveX Control Vulnerability."
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Key data
EPSS
- Score
- 0.71735 (71.7% probability)
- Percentile
- 99.4%
- Scores of
- Nov 10, 2026
- Model
- v2026.06.15
References
- blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2011/01/07/assessing-the-ri…
- ADV-2010-3301 (vupen.com)vdb-entry
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12475 (oval.cisecurity.org)vdb-entrysignature
- VU#725596 (kb.cert.org)third-party-advisory
- wooyun.org/bug.php?action=view&id=1006
- MS11-027 (docs.microsoft.com)vendor-advisory
- 45546 (securityfocus.com)vdb-entry
- ms-wmi-wbemsingleview-ce(64250) (exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com)vdb-entry
- 15809 (exploit-db.com)exploit
- 42693 (secunia.com)third-party-advisory
Timeline
- ID reserved
- Record published
- Record last updated
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