Vulnerability CVE-2010-3973
Published: 2010-12-23   Modified: 2012-02-13

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."

Type:

CWE-94

 (Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
9.3/10
10/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
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://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
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