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Unscored Public exploit CVE-2010-3973 EUVD-2010-3950GHSA-2r2c-prqv-cxp3

The WMITools ActiveX control in WBEMSingleView.ocx 1.50.1131.0 in Microsoft WMI Administrative Tools 1.1 and earlier in Microsoft Windows X…

Published Dec 23, 2010 · Updated Aug 7, 2024 · Assigned by microsoft

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."

Public exploits

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Metasploit 1 module

Exploit-DB 2

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