CVE-2010-3973

no score yetEPSS 72%

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."

EPSS: 72% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 99% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-94
Published: 2010-12-23
Modified: 2026-06-16
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

microsoft:wmi_administrative_tools

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

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