AOL's vulnerability footprint spans a moderate volume of disclosures distributed across its instant-messaging, client software, and server platforms, a product set that was widely deployed in consumer and enterprise messaging during its operational peak. Vulnerabilities affecting the vendor recur through memory-safety and input-handling weakness classes including buffer overflows, improper bounds checking, code injection, and input-validation issues that are characteristic of native client and server software from that era. The exposure has a marked tendency toward public exploit availability, reflecting the broad appeal of messaging platforms as targets for remote-code execution and lateral-movement attack chains. Defenders maintaining legacy AOL-dependent infrastructure or archival systems should prioritize memory-safety issues in the listed products; current exploitation activity and exposure counts are shown alongside this summary.
The number and severity of CVEs published that impact products developed by Aol over time
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (59 CVEs).
59 CVEs · Highest risk first
| CVE | Published | CVSS | Risk | KEV | Exploit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CVE-2004-0636HIGH Buffer overflow in the goaway function in the aim:goaway URI handler for AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) 5.5, including 5.5.3595, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via | Nov 23, 2004 | 10.0 | 78 | NO | YES |
CVE-2006-5650HIGH The ICQPhone.SipxPhoneManager ActiveX control in America Online ICQ 5.1 allows remote attackers to download and execute arbitrary code via the DownloadAgent function, as demonstrat | Nov 7, 2006 | 7.5 | 73 | NO | YES |
CVE-2002-0005HIGH Buffer overflow in AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) 4.7.2480, 4.8.2616, and other versions allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long argument in a game request (AddGa | Jan 31, 2002 | 10.0 | 49 | NO | YES |
CVE-2001-1067HIGH Buffer overflow in AOLserver 3.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, and possibly execute arbitrary code, via an HTTP request with a long Authorization header. | Aug 31, 2001 | 10.0 | 43 | NO | YES |
CVE-2007-5755HIGH Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the AOL AmpX ActiveX control in AmpX.dll 2.6.1.11 in AOL Radio allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via long arguments to unspe | Nov 14, 2007 | 9.3 | 39 | NO | YES |
CVE-2009-3658HIGH Use-after-free vulnerability in the Sb.SuperBuddy.1 ActiveX control (sb.dll) in America Online (AOL) 9.5.0.1 allows remote attackers to trigger memory corruption or possibly execut | Oct 9, 2009 | 8.8 | 38 | NO | YES |
CVE-2006-5820HIGH The LinkSBIcons method in the SuperBuddy ActiveX control (Sb.SuperBuddy.1) in America Online 9.0 Security Edition dereferences an arbitrary function pointer, which allows remote at | Apr 2, 2007 | 9.3 | 36 | NO | YES |
CVE-2007-6250HIGH Stack-based buffer overflow in AOL AOLMediaPlaybackControl (AOLMediaPlaybackControl.exe), as used by AmpX ActiveX control (AmpX.dll), might allow remote attackers to execute arbitr | Jan 9, 2008 | 9.3 | 34 | NO | NO |
CVE-2002-0591MEDIUM Directory traversal vulnerability in AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) 4.8 beta and earlier allows remote attackers to create arbitrary files and execute commands via a Direct Connection | Jun 18, 2002 | 5.0 | 33 | NO | YES |
CVE-2001-0205MEDIUM Directory traversal vulnerability in AOLserver 3.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files by inserting "..." into the requested pathname, a modified .. (dot do | May 3, 2001 | 5.0 | 33 | NO | YES |
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (59 CVEs).
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