CVE-2010-3973

Published Dec 23, 2010

Last updated 6 years ago

Overview

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."
Source: secure@microsoft.com
NVD status: Modified

Hype score: Not currently trending

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 9.3
Impact score: 10
Exploitability score: 8.6
Vector string: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-94

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:wmi_administrative_tools:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "59D091AE-A921-4A98-8BF1-9CCCEDB73A31",
            "versionEndIncluding": "1.1"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References