Vulnerability Report

CVE-2007-1891

Title: Akamai Technologies Download Manager RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2007-1891.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo
Published Date Apr 18, 2007
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 9.3 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
6.77%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2007-1891: Stack-based buffer overflow in the GetPrivateProfileSectionW function in Akamai Technologies Download Manager ActiveX Control (DownloadManagerV2.ocx) after 2.0.4.4 but before 2.2.1.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code, related to misinterpretation of the nSize parameter as a byte count instead of a wide character count.

Impacted Vendors

X
xtreme_scripts 1
A
akamai_technologies 1
C
cisco 1

Reference Links

http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=514 http://secunia.com/advisories/24900 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/120241 http://www.osvdb.org/34323 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/465908/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23522 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017925 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1415 http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=514 http://secunia.com/advisories/24900 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/120241 http://www.osvdb.org/34323 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/465908/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23522 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017925 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1415
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
9.3
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2007-1891 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.