CVE-2010-3888

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Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Windows on 32-bit platforms allows local users to gain privileges via unknown vectors, as exploited in the wild in July 2010 by the Stuxnet worm, and identified by Kaspersky Lab researchers and other researchers.

Published: 2010-10-08 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2010-3888 is rated High Exploit Risk (77.8/100): CVSS High severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 3.93%). Core evidence: 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +2.90% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2010-3888

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
19930 exploit_db edb 2012-07-19 Exploit-DB ↗
15589 exploit_db edb 2010-11-20 Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2010-3888

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 1.03% 3.93% +2.90%
2 2026-01-01 1.36% 1.03% -0.33%
3 2025-06-17 1.36%

Full EPSS history (12 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2010-3888

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.2 2.0 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C Click to expand
Access vector (AV:L)
Requires local access to the target system.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:C)
Complete confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:C)
Complete integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:C)
Complete availability impact.
3.9 10.0 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2010-3888

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2010-3888

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
microsoft windows cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2010-3888

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