CVE-2010-3973

Exp

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."

Published: 2010-12-23 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2010-3973 is rated High Exploit Risk (82/100): CVSS Critical severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 71.73%, 99th percentile). 5 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). 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-2010-3973

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
16516 exploit_db edb 2011-01-14 Exploit-DB ↗
15809 exploit_db edb 2010-12-22 Exploit-DB ↗
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2010-3973

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 82.68% 71.73% -10.94%
2 2026-02-15 78.35% 82.68% +4.32%
3 2026-01-20 — 78.35% —

Full EPSS history (24 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2010-3973

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
9.3 2.0 HIGH
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
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.
 8.6 10.0 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2010-3973

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2010-3973

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
microsoft wmi_administrative_tools <= 1.1 cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:wmi_administrative_tools:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2010-3973

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