CVE-2010-3973

high

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."

References

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12475

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64250

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2011/ms11-027

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3301

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/725596

http://secunia.com/advisories/42693

http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2011/01/07/assessing-the-risk-of-public-issues-currently-being-tracked-by-the-msrc.aspx

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2010-12-23

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 9.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High