CVE-2010-3973
HIGH · CVSS 9.3EPSS 71.7%EU EUVD
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."
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 9.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-94
- EPSS score
- 71.7% (99th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2010-3950)
- Published
- December 23, 2010
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2010-3950 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- microsoft / wmi administrative tools
References
- http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2011/01/07/assessing-the-risk-of-public-issues-currently-being-tracked-by-the-msrc.aspx
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42693(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15809(Exploit)
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/725596(US Government Resource)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45546(Exploit)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3301(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.wooyun.org/bug.php?action=view&id=1006(Exploit)
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2011/ms11-027
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64250
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12475
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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