ActiveX Control Vulnerability in Microsoft WMI Administrative Tools
CVE-2010-3973

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor

Microsoft
Status
Wmi Administrative Tools
Vendor
CVE Published:
23 December 2010

What is CVE-2010-3973?

The WMITools ActiveX control in WBEMSingleView.ocx versions up to 1.50.1131.0 in Microsoft WMI Administrative Tools allows remote attackers to exploit an untrusted pointer dereference through a crafted argument to the AddContextRef method. This exploitation can lead to the execution of arbitrary code on affected systems, putting user data and system integrity at risk.

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References

http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2011/01/07/assessi...
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http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3301
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https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/...
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EPSS Score

78% chance of being exploited in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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