National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-0948
Original release date:08/21/2006
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
AOL 9.0 Security Edition revision 4184.2340, and probably other versions, uses insecure permissions (Everyone/Full Control) for the "America Online 9.0" directory, which allows local users to gain privileges by replacing critical files.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
Solution
AOL has released fixes to address this issue. These fixes can be automatically applied by logging in to the service.}
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External Source: XF
Name: aol-default-insecure-permissions(28445)
Type: Patch Information
External Source: BID
Name: 19583
Type: Patch Information
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2006-3317
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1016717
Type: Patch Information
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 18734
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20060818 Secunia Research: AOL Insecure Default Directory Permissions
Type: Advisory
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 27995
External Source: SREASON
Name: 1416
External Source: MISC
Name: http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2006-08
