Microsoft WMI Administrative Tools up to 1.1 ActiveX Control WBEMSingleView.ocx code injection

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A vulnerability was found in Microsoft WMI Administrative Tools up to 1.1 and classified as very critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code of the file WBEMSingleView.ocx of the component ActiveX Control. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a code injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-94. The product constructs all or part of a code segment using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the syntax or behavior of the intended code segment. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The WMITools ActiveX control in WBEMSingleView.ocx 1.50.1131.0 in Microsoft WMI Administrative Tools 1.1 and earlier in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted argument to the AddContextRef method, possibly an untrusted pointer dereference, aka "Microsoft WMITools ActiveX Control Vulnerability."

The weakness was published 12/22/2010 with WooYun as confirmed advisory (CERT.org). The advisory is available at kb.cert.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2010-3973 since 10/14/2010. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 10/07/2021). This vulnerability is assigned to T1059 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

A public exploit has been developed by WooYun and been published immediately after the advisory. The exploit is available at securityfocus.com. It is declared as highly functional. As 0-day the estimated underground price was around $25k-$100k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 53384 (MS11-027: Cumulative Security Update of ActiveX Kill Bits (2508272)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Windows : Microsoft Bulletins. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 90694 (Microsoft Windows Cumulative Security Update of ActiveX Kill Bits (MS11-027)).

A possible mitigation has been published 4 months after the disclosure of the vulnerability. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 11034.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (64250), Tenable (53384) and Exploit-DB (15809). Similar entries are available at 4233, 53511, 56962 and 57085.

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Class: Code injection
CWE: CWE-94 / CWE-74 / CWE-707
ATT&CK: T1059

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Access: Public
Status: Highly functional
Author: WooYun
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Nessus ID: 53384
Nessus Name: MS11-027: Cumulative Security Update of ActiveX Kill Bits (2508272)
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OpenVAS ID: 801677
OpenVAS Name: Microsoft WMI Administrative Tools ActiveX Control Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities
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Saint ID: exploit_info/microsoft_wmi_admin_tools_addcontextref
Saint Name: Microsoft WMI Administrative Tools ActiveX Control AddContextRef vulnerability

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MetaSploit ID: wmi_admintools.rb
MetaSploit Name: Microsoft WMI Administration Tools ActiveX Buffer Overflow
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: microsoft.com

Advisory: kb.cert.org
Organization: WooYun
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2010-3973 (🔍)
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X-Force: 64250
Vulnerability Center: 29114 - [MS11-027] Microsoft Windows XP WMI Administrative Tools Remote Arbitrary Code Execution, Critical
SecurityFocus: 45546 - Microsoft WMI Administrative Tools ActiveX Control Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Secunia: 42693 - Microsoft WMI Administrative Tools WMI Object Viewer ActiveX Control Vulnerabilities, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 69942 - Microsoft WMI Administrative Tools WEBSingleView.ocx ActiveX Remote Code Execution
Vupen: ADV-2010-3301

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entryinfo

Created: 03/19/2015 23:27
Updated: 10/07/2021 14:34
Changes: 03/19/2015 23:27 (84), 09/03/2017 14:58 (20), 10/07/2021 14:34 (3)
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