CVE-2010-2743

EXPLOITED IN THE WILD

Microsoft Windows XP SP3 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm

Description

The kernel-mode drivers in Microsoft Windows XP SP3 do not properly perform indexing of a function-pointer table during the loading of keyboard layouts from disk, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, as demonstrated in the wild in July 2010 by the Stuxnet worm, aka "Win32k Keyboard Layout Vulnerability." NOTE: this might be a duplicate of CVE-2010-3888 or CVE-2010-3889.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC VERIFIED

by Ruben Santamarta · clocalwindows

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15985

View Code ZIP pw:eip

References (3)

[US Government Resource] http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-285A.html

[Vendor Advisory] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2010/ms10-073

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7514

Scores

EPSS 0.0538

EPSS Percentile 90.1%

Details

VulnCheck KEV 2021-12-15

InTheWild.io 2019-02-26

Status published

Products (6)

microsoft/windows_2003_server (2 CPE variants)

microsoft/windows_7 (2 CPE variants)

microsoft/windows_server_2003

microsoft/windows_server_2008 (8 CPE variants)

microsoft/windows_vista (3 CPE variants)

microsoft/windows_xp (2 CPE variants)

Published Jan 20, 2011

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026