CVE-2010-3973

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."

Score

CVSS 2.0 9.3 Critical

Status

Modified - secure@microsoft.com

Published

2010-12-23

Last modified

2024-08-07

Weaknesses

CWE-94

Affected products

• Wmi Administrative Tools (Microsoft)

References

• http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2011/01/07/assessing-the-risk-of-public-issues-currently-being-tracked-by-the-ms…
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42693
• http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15809
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/725596
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45546
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3301
• http://www.wooyun.org/bug.php?action=view&id=1006
• 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