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AOL Instant Messenger: vulnerabilities and CVEs

AOL Instant Messenger has 30 published vulnerabilities, 0 of them in the last 12 months. 0 are rated critical and 0 are listed by CISA as actively exploited.

CVEs30
Last 12 months0
Critical0
Actively exploited0

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CVESeverityEPSSActive exploitationPublishedDescription
CVE-2007-5124Medium (6.8)1.9%—Sep 27, 2007
The embedded Internet Explorer server control in AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) 6.5.3.12 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified web script or HTML in an instant message, related to…
CVE-2007-4901Medium (5.8)2.8%—Sep 14, 2007
The embedded Internet Explorer server control in AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) 6.1.41.2 and 6.2.32.1, AIM Pro, and AIM Lite does not properly constrain the use of mshtml.dll's web script and HTML functionality for…
CVE-2007-3437High (7.8)1.6%—Jun 27, 2007
AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) 6.1.32.1 on Windows XP allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed header value in a SIP INVITE message, a different vulnerability than…
CVE-2007-3350High (7.8)1.6%—Jun 22, 2007
AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) 6.1.32.1 on Windows XP allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application hang) via a flood of spoofed SIP INVITE requests.
CVE-2007-1904Medium (4.3)3.7%—Apr 10, 2007
Directory traversal vulnerability in AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) 5.9 and earlier, and ICQ 5.1 and probably earlier, allows user-assisted remote attackers to write files to arbitrary locations via a .. (dot dot) in a…
CVE-2006-0629Medium (5.1)2.7%—Feb 10, 2006
Unspecified vulnerability in AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) 5.9.3861 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (client crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code by tricking the user into…
CVE-2005-1655Medium (5)2.4%—May 18, 2005
AOL Instant Messenger 5.5.x and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (client crash) via an invalid smiley icon location in the sml parameter of a font tag.
CVE-2001-1420Medium (5)2.4%—May 2, 2005
AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) 4.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long filename, possibly caused by a buffer overflow.
CVE-2004-2373High (7.5)2.7%—Dec 31, 2004
The Buddy icon file for AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) 4.3 through 5.5 is created in a predictable location, which may allow remote attackers to use a shell: URI to exploit other vulnerabilities that involve predictable…
CVE-2004-0636High (10)66%—Nov 23, 2004
Buffer overflow in the goaway function in the aim:goaway URI handler for AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) 5.5, including 5.5.3595, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long Away message.
CVE-2003-1503High (10)4.6%—Dec 31, 2003
Buffer overflow in AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) 5.2.3292 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an aim:getfile URL with a long screen name.
CVE-2002-1953Medium (5)1.9%—Dec 31, 2002
Heap-based buffer overflow in the goim handler of AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) 4.4 through 4.8.2616 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via escaping of the screen name parameter, which triggers…
CVE-2002-2169Medium (5)2.4%—Dec 31, 2002
Cross-site scripting vulnerability AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) 4.5 and 4.7 for MacOS and Windows allows remote attackers to conduct unauthorized activities, such as adding buddies and groups to a user's buddy list, via…
CVE-2002-1813Low (2.6)6.9%—Dec 31, 2002
Directory traversal vulnerability in AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) 4.8.2790 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary programs by specifying the program in the href attribute of a link.
CVE-2002-0785Medium (5)3.7%—Aug 12, 2002
AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an "AddBuddy" link with the ScreenName parameter set to a large number of comma-separated values, possibly triggering a buffer…
CVE-2002-0592High (7.5)1.6%—Jun 18, 2002
AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) allows remote attackers to steal files that are being transferred to other clients by connecting to port 4443 (Direct Connection) or port 5190 (file transfer) before the intended user.
CVE-2002-0591Medium (5)12%—Jun 18, 2002
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…
CVE-2002-0362High (7.5)3.8%—May 29, 2002
Buffer overflow in AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) 4.2 and later allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long AddExternalApp request and a TLV type greater than 0x2711.
CVE-2002-1591High (7.5)1.7%—Apr 8, 2002
AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) 4.7.2480 adds free.aol.com to the Trusted Sites Zone in Internet Explorer without user approval, which could allow code from free.aol.com to bypass intended access restrictions.
CVE-2002-0005High (10)16%—Jan 31, 2002
Buffer overflow in AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) 4.7.2480, 4.8.2616, and other versions allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long argument in a game request (AddGame).
CVE-2001-1418Medium (5)2.2%—Oct 6, 2001
AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) 4.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed WAV file.
CVE-2001-1421Medium (5)2.4%—Oct 6, 2001
AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) 4.7 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a large number of different fonts followed by an HTML HR tag.
CVE-2001-1417Medium (5)2.4%—Oct 6, 2001
AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) 4.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application hang or crash) via a buddy icon GIF file whose length and width values are larger than the actual image data.
CVE-2001-1419Medium (5)2.4%—Oct 2, 2001
AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) 4.7.2480 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an instant message that contains a large amount of "<!--" HTML comments.
CVE-2001-1416Medium (5.1)1.6%—Jan 18, 2001
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the log messages in certain Alpha versions of AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) 4.4 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary web script or HTML via an image in the (1)…
CVE-2000-1093High (7.5)8.1%—Jan 9, 2001
Buffer overflow in AOL Instant Messenger before 4.3.2229 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long "goim" command.
CVE-2000-1000Medium (5)2.2%—Dec 11, 2000
Format string vulnerability in AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) 4.1.2010 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary commands by transferring a file whose name includes format…
CVE-2000-0383Medium (5)0.99%—May 8, 2000
The file transfer component of AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) reveals the physical path of the transferred file to the remote recipient.
CVE-2000-0190Medium (5)1.3%—Mar 2, 2000
AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) client allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a message with a malformed ASCII value.
CVE-1999-0486Medium (5)1.9%—Feb 1, 1998
Denial of service in AOL Instant Messenger when a remote attacker sends a malicious hyperlink to the receiving client, potentially causing a system crash.

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