CVE-2010-3973

CriticalCVSS 9.3/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

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."

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 9.3/10AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weakness enumeration

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Dec 23, 2010
Last modified
Jun 16, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2010-3973: Critical severity, CVSS 9.3 | Vulnix