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critical 9.3

CVE-2010-4588 in the critical feed json

The WBEMSingleView.ocx ActiveX control 1.50.1131.0 in Microsoft WMI Administrative Tools 1.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute…

published 15y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2010-4554

cvss
9.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
32.3%
EPSS 32.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

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.

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Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-15809)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

32.28% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-15809 Microsoft WMITools - ActiveX Remote Command Execution remote, 2010-12-22
  • wooyun.org http://www.wooyun.org/bug.php?action=view&id=1006 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

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-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code

References

Sources

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