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critical 9.3

CVE-2010-2729 in the critical feed json

The Print Spooler service in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP1 and SP2, Windows Server 2008 Gold…

published 16y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2010-2733

cvss
9.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
75.6%
EPSS 75.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.5%
public exploits
2
Metasploit and Exploit-DB

Summary

The Print Spooler service in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP1 and SP2, Windows Server 2008 Gold, SP2, and R2, and Windows 7, when printer sharing is enabled, does not properly validate spooler access permissions, which allows remote attackers to create files in a system directory, and consequently execute arbitrary code, by sending a crafted print request over RPC, as exploited in the wild in September 2010, aka "Print Spooler Service Impersonation Vulnerability."

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Timeline

  1. First public exploit (Metasploit exploit/windows/smb/ms10_061_spoolss)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

75.64% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.5% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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