CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-0591

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2002-06-18 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2002-06-18
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) 4.8 beta and earlier allows remote attackers to create arbitrary files and execute commands via a Direct Connection with an IMG tag with a SRC attribute that specifies the target filename.

Affected configurations

• aol instant messenger 4.0 • aol instant messenger 4.1 • aol instant messenger 4.2 • aol instant messenger 4.3 • aol instant messenger 4.4 • aol instant messenger 4.5 • aol instant messenger 4.6 • aol instant messenger 4.7 • aol instant messenger 4.8 beta

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