CVE-2010-3973

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."

• CWE-94

• 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/42693Vendor Advisory
• http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15809Exploit
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/725596US Government Resource
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45546Exploit
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3301Vendor Advisory
• http://www.wooyun.org/bug.php?action=view&id=1006Exploit
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2011/ms11-027
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64250
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12475
• 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/42693Vendor Advisory
• http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15809Exploit
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/725596US Government Resource
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45546Exploit
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3301Vendor Advisory
• http://www.wooyun.org/bug.php?action=view&id=1006Exploit
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2011/ms11-027
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64250
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12475

Published

Dec 23, 2010

Last Modified

Jun 16, 2026

Status

Modified

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