CVE-2010-3973: Microsoft Wmi Administrative Tools

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 71.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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."

Affected products

• Microsoft Wmi Administrative Tools: up to and including 1.1

Published 2010-12-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.