CVE-2010-3888

high

Published 2010-10-08 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.2

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Windows on 32-bit platforms allows local users to gain privileges via unknown vectors, as exploited in the wild in July 2010 by the Stuxnet worm, and identified by Kaspersky Lab researchers and other researchers.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-19930 local windows verified

Metasploit · 2012-07-19

Microsoft Windows - Task Scheduler '.XML' Local Privilege Escalation (MS10-092) (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

EDB-15589 local windows verified

webDEViL · 2010-11-20

Microsoft Windows - Task Scheduler Privilege Escalation

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.