Vulnerability in Aol Instant Messenger
CVE-2001-1419
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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.024 (83.5th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 83rd percentile — 83.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.024 · newest: 0.024 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Aol Instant Messenger — versions 4.0, 4.1, 4.2
- Cerulean Studios Trillian — versions 0.6351
References
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/507771 (US Government Resource, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7233 (vdb-entry)
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/JARL-56TPTN (US Government Resource)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/3398 (Exploit, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/247707 (mailing-list, Exploit)
- archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-10/0014.html (mailing-list, Exploit)