{
    "id": "CVE-2010-3973",
    "published": "2010-12-23 18:00:03",
    "last_modified": "2026-06-16 23:23:55",
    "cvss_score": "9.3",
    "cvss_severity": "HIGH",
    "cvss_version": "2.0",
    "cvss_vector": "AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C",
    "cwe": "CWE-94",
    "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.\"",
    "epss_score": "0.71735",
    "epss_percentile": "0.99407",
    "kev": 0,
    "kev_due": null,
    "has_exploit": 1,
    "updated_at": "2026-09-27 18:17:09",
    "priority": {
        "rank": 2,
        "label": "Patch early",
        "why": "A public exploit exists."
    },
    "products": [
        {
            "vendor": "microsoft",
            "product": "wmi_administrative_tools"
        }
    ],
    "kev_detail": null,
    "exploits": [
        {
            "source": "exploit-db",
            "ref_id": "16516",
            "title": "Microsoft WMI Administration Tools - ActiveX Buffer Overflow (Metasploit)",
            "date": "2011-01-14",
            "url": "https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/16516"
        },
        {
            "source": "exploit-db",
            "ref_id": "15809",
            "title": "Microsoft WMITools - ActiveX Remote Command Execution",
            "date": "2010-12-22",
            "url": "https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15809"
        }
    ],
    "refs_list": [
        "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",
        "http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3301",
        "http://www.wooyun.org/bug.php?action=view&id=1006",
        "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/42693",
        "http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15809",
        "http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/725596",
        "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45546",
        "http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3301",
        "http://www.wooyun.org/bug.php?action=view&id=1006",
        "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"
    ]
}