CVE-2006-5650
The ICQPhone.SipxPhoneManager ActiveX control in America Online ICQ 5.1 allows remote attackers to download and execute arbitrary code via…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 67.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.7% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 3Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
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 demonstrated using an ICQ avatar.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and 2 Exploit-DB entries for it.
Show the exploits3
Metasploit modules1 module
- America Online ICQ ActiveX Control Arbitrary File Download and Execute (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/windows/browser/aol_icq_downloadagentRank excellentdisclosed 6 Nov 2006
Exploit-DB2 entries
- America Online ICQ - ActiveX Control Arbitrary File Download and Execute (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 16554remote, windowspublished 24 Nov 2010Verified
- America Online ICQ 5.1 - ActiveX Control Remote Code Execution (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 28916remote, windowspublished 6 Nov 2006Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 5 days later
· 5 days later
Published
- 18 years later
· 18 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 67.2% · top 0.7% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References8
- aol-icq-code-execution(30059) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 1830 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-06-037.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 1017163 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- ADV-2006-4362 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 20061106 ZDI-06-037: America Online ICQ ActiveX Control Code Execution Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 22670 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20930 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2006-5635 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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