{"cve":"CVE-2010-3973","nvd":{"published":"2010-12-23T18:00:03.150","modified":"2026-06-16T23:23:55.290","status":"Modified","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.\"","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":["CWE-94"],"references":["http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2011/01/07/assessing-the-risk-of-public-issues-currently-being-tracked-by-the-msrc.aspx","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"],"products":["microsoft:wmi_administrative_tools"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T19:57:56.749847046+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2010-3973","score":0.71735,"percentile":0.99423,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}