CVE-2010-0232

CRITICALNVD 7.89.0
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

“▲” beside the score: it is higher than NVD's CVSS score.

Score elevated to 9.0 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2022-03-03), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. NVD baseline CVSS 7.8 retained for reference. The 9.0 is the floor for confirmed exploitation, not an impact rating: this CVE's impact severity (EG Severity) is CVSS 7.8 HIGH under GitHub Security Advisory CVSS. Confidence: HIGH.

Triggered by: CISA KEV (actively exploited)
Sources: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 3 sources updated this weekExploited in the wild

Also known asEUVD-2010-0263 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-xprh-x7hf-54qr (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.0EG
EchelonGraph verdictMitigate nowTreat as an emergency — this is being exploited.
  • Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV) — the reason this is sooner than the SSVC decision on this page at low or medium mission impact
CISA-KEV: ExploitedEPSS PROB: 29%CVSS: 7.8Exploit: Metasploit · Exploit-DB (verified)Exposed services: Not assessed

A fix is referenced (a reference tagged "Patch", often a source commit), but no release containing it is confirmed — find the release that contains it; until it is applied, mitigate (WAF / firewall / segmentation).

The kernel in Microsoft Windows NT 3.1 through Windows 7, including Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista Gold, SP1, and SP2, and Windows Server 2008 Gold and SP2, when access to 16-bit applications is enabled on a 32-bit x86 platform, does not properly validate certain BIOS calls, which allows local users to gain privileges by crafting a VDM_TIB data structure in the Thread Environment Block (TEB), and then calling the NtVdmControl function to start the Windows Virtual DOS Machine (aka NTVDM) subsystem, leading to improperly handled exceptions involving the #GP trap handler (nt!KiTrap0D), aka "Windows Kernel Exception Handler Vulnerability."

CVSS v3
7.8
EG Score
9.0CRITICALhigh confidence
EG Risk
75
EG Risk 75/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity78% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 7.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation100% × 40%
Fixed at 100% for a CISA KEV listing: EchelonGraph's rule.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.
Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is referenced, but no release containing it is confirmed. Check the referenced fix and the vendor's advisory for a release that contains it and apply that within your standard update timelines at low, sooner than that at medium and as soon as possible at high mission impact; until then, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation.
EPSS PROB
29%
EPSS %ILE
98th
KEV
⚠ Exploited

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.0): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.0 is the CISA KEV floor for confirmed exploitation, not an impact rating: its impact severity (EG Severity) is CVSS 7.8 HIGH.

EG Severity
7.8 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
29% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-25). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
CISA KEV and EG-KEV Tier 1 (exploited in the wild)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Attend at medium mission impactTrack at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 14 days if it is not.Each input and its source: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.

A fix is referenced, but no release containing it is confirmed. Check the referenced fix and the vendor's advisory for a release that contains it and apply that within your standard update timelines at low, sooner than that at medium and as soon as possible at high mission impact; until then, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation.

Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 14 days if it is not.

In CISA KEV yes (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

CISA required action“Apply updates per vendor instructions.”

Quoted verbatim from CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. CISA directs it at US federal civilian executive branch agencies under Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04, which replaced BOD 22-01 on 10 June 2026; it is not EchelonGraph's advice. CISA's notes: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-0232

Published

January 21, 2010

Last Modified

April 22, 2026

Advisory Details (6)

Auto-updated Oct 19, 2026
⚠️ Actively exploited (CISA KEV, CISA Vulnrichment). Fix referenced — no release confirmed yet.
Web page

Secunia Research & Vulnerability Insights | Flexera

http://secunia.com/advisories/38265
Web page

CVE-2010-0232: Microsoft Windows Kernel Exception Handler

http://lists.immunitysec.com/pipermail/dailydave/2010-January/006000.html
Web page

Full Disclosure: Microsoft Windows NT #GP Trap Handler Allows Users to Switch Kernel Stack

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2010/Jan/341

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 20× in last 7d / 172× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 1,134 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 1,034 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

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  4. 2026-10-25 07:12 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xprh-x7hf-54qr · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  5. 2026-10-24 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 29% · 98th percentile
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  7. 2026-10-24 05:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xprh-x7hf-54qr · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  10. 2026-10-23 03:30 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xprh-x7hf-54qr · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  13. 2026-10-22 01:38 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xprh-x7hf-54qr · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  16. 2026-10-20 23:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xprh-x7hf-54qr · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  19. 2026-10-19 21:55 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xprh-x7hf-54qr · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  25. 2026-10-17 18:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xprh-x7hf-54qr · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  1. 2026-10-17 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 29% · 98th percentile
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  4. 2026-10-16 16:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xprh-x7hf-54qr · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  7. 2026-10-15 14:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xprh-x7hf-54qr · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  10. 2026-10-14 12:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xprh-x7hf-54qr · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  12. 2026-10-13 10:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xprh-x7hf-54qr · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  15. 2026-10-12 08:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xprh-x7hf-54qr · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  25. 2026-10-11 09:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xprh-x7hf-54qr · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  49. 2026-10-08 14:07 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xprh-x7hf-54qr · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  55. 2026-10-07 23:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xprh-x7hf-54qr · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  66. 2026-10-06 13:14 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xprh-x7hf-54qr · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  73. 2026-10-05 17:37 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 29% · 98th percentile
  74. 2026-10-05 14:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xprh-x7hf-54qr · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  75. 2026-10-05 10:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xprh-x7hf-54qr · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8

Publicly available exploits

(2 references)

Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 Metasploit module, 1 Exploit-DB entry). No release with the fix is confirmed, so defenders should restrict or isolate affected systems accordingly until one is applied.

  • Metasploitexploit/windows/local/ms10_015_kitrap0d✓ verified
    Published Nov 14, 2013

    Windows SYSTEM Escalation via KiTrap0D

    Open source ↗
  • Exploit-DBEDB-11199✓ verified
    Published Jan 19, 2010

    Microsoft Windows NT/2000/2003/2008/XP/Vista/7 - 'KiTrap0D' User Mode to Ring Escalation (MS10-015)

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(6)

What is CVE-2010-0232?
CVE-2010-0232 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on January 21, 2010. The kernel in Microsoft Windows NT 3.1 through Windows 7, including Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista Gold, SP1, and SP2, and Windows Server 2008 Gold and SP2, when access to 16-bit applications is enabled on a 32-bit x86 platform, does not properly…
When was CVE-2010-0232 made public?
CVE-2010-0232 was made public on January 19, 2010: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, Microsoft Corporation, gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on January 21, 2010. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of April 22, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2010-0232 actively exploited?
Yes. CISA added CVE-2010-0232 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on March 3, 2022, affecting Microsoft Windows. KEV listing indicates confirmed exploitation in the wild; this CVE warrants immediate attention. A fix is referenced, but no release containing it is confirmed. Check the referenced fix and the vendor's advisory for a release that contains it and apply that; until then, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2010-0232?
CVE-2010-0232 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.8 (NVD). EchelonGraph synthesises NVD + CISA KEV + FIRST EPSS + GHSA into a combined EG score of 9.0 (CRITICAL).
Which products are affected by CVE-2010-0232?
CVE-2010-0232 affects Microsoft Windows.
How do I remediate CVE-2010-0232?
A fix for CVE-2010-0232 is referenced (a reference tagged "Patch", often a source commit), but EchelonGraph has no release containing it on record. Check that reference and the vendor's advisory for a release that contains the fix and update to it; until then, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation.

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