CVE-2010-4588 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The WBEMSingleView.ocx ActiveX control 1.50.1131.0 in Microsoft WMI Administrative Tools 1.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted argument to the ReleaseContext method, a different vector than CVE-2010-3973, possibly an untrusted pointer dereference.

Published: 2010-12-23

Score: 9.3 Critical

EPSS: 65.6% High

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:wmi_administrative_tools:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

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No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Complete

Integrity Impact Complete

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.6564.

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References

Link	Providers
http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2011/01/07/assessing-the-risk-of-public-issues-currently-being-tracked-by-the-msrc.aspx
http://secunia.com/advisories/42693
http://twitter.com/carsteneiram/status/17526155733110784
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/725596
http://www.wooyun.org/bug.php?action=view&id=1006

History

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Subscriptions

Microsoft Wmi Administrative Tools

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2010-12-23T17:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T03:51:17.830Z

Reserved: 2010-12-22T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2010-4588

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2010-12-23T18:00:03.463

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2010-4588

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-94

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