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…
- 9.3HighCVSS base score
- 71.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.6% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 3Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
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."
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and 2 Exploit-DB entries for it. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits4
Metasploit modules1 module
- Microsoft WMI Administration Tools ActiveX Buffer Overflow (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/windows/browser/wmi_admintoolsRank greatdisclosed 21 Dec 2010
Exploit-DB2 entries
- Microsoft WMI Administration Tools - ActiveX Buffer Overflow (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 16516remote, windowspublished 14 Jan 2011Verified
- Microsoft WMITools - ActiveX Remote Command Execution (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 15809remote, windowspublished 22 Dec 2010Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 15809 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By microsoft
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Published
- 14 years later
· 14 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High9.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 71.7% · top 0.6% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
10
- http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2011/01/07/assessing-the-risk-of-public-issues-currently-being-tracked-by-the-msrc.aspx (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- ADV-2010-3301 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12475 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- VU#725596 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- http://www.wooyun.org/bug.php?action=view&id=1006 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- MS11-027 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- 45546 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- ms-wmi-wbemsingleview-ce(64250) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 15809 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 42693 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2010-3950 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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