National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-3833

Overview

The AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) protocol handler in Cerulean Studios Trillian allows remote attackers to create files with arbitrary contents via certain aim: URIs, as demonstrated by a URI that begins with the "aim: &c:\" substring and contains a full pathname in the ini field. NOTE: this can be leveraged for code execution by writing to a Startup folder.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.xs-sniper.com/nmcfeters/Cross-App-Scripting-2.html

Hyperlink:http://www.xs-sniper.com/nmcfeters/Cross-App-Scripting-2.html

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2007-2546

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2546

External Source: BID

Name: 24927

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24927

External Source: XF

Name: trillian-aim-file-create(35449)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/35449

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 26086

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/26086