VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2010-3973

CVSS score9.3 HIGH
EPSS probability71.73%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2010-12-23
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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."

Weakness classification

  • CWE-94: Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

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