CVEvulnerability
CVE-2010-2744
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2010-10-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
The kernel-mode drivers 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 do not properly manage a window class, which allows local users to gain privileges by creating a window, then using (1) the SetWindowLongPtr function to modify the popup menu structure, or (2) the SwitchWndProc function with a switch window information pointer, which is not re-initialized when a WM_NCCREATE message is processed, aka "Win32k Window Class Vulnerability."
Affected configurations
• microsoft windows 2003 server
• microsoft windows 7
• microsoft windows server 2003
• microsoft windows server 2008
• microsoft windows vista
• microsoft windows xp
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://mista.nu/blog/2010/12/01/windows-class-handling-gone-wrong/ mista.nu
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15894 www.exploit-db.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-285A.html US Government Resource
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2010/ms10-073 docs.microsoft.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12085 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://mista.nu/blog/2010/12/01/windows-class-handling-gone-wrong/ mista.nu
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15894 www.exploit-db.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-285A.html US Government Resource
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2010/ms10-073 docs.microsoft.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12085 oval.cisecurity.org