CVE-2006-0526 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the default configuration of the America Online (AOL) client software. It allows local users to modify a specific registry value that dictates a DLL file, potentially enabling the execution of a Trojan horse program. With a CVSS score of 7.2 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C), this vulnerability has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, but requires local access and low attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:aol:aol_client_software:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:aol:aol_client_software:8.0:*:plus:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:aol:aol_client_software:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:aol:aol_client_software:9.0:*:optimized:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:aol:aol_client_software:9.0:*:security:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
No social media mentions found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.5 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.