CVE-2008-1770
CRLF injection vulnerability in Akamai Download Manager ActiveX control before 2.2.3.6 allows remote attackers to force the download and…
- 9.3HighCVSS base score
- 10.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 4.2% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
CRLF injection vulnerability in Akamai Download Manager ActiveX control before 2.2.3.6 allows remote attackers to force the download and execution of arbitrary files via a URL parameter containing an encoded LF followed by a malicious target line.
Public exploit
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- Akamai Download Manager < 2.2.3.7 - ActiveX Remote Download (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 5741remote, windowspublished 4 Jun 2008Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 5741 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 53 days later
· 53 days later
Published
- 16 years later
· 16 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 | High9.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 10.4% · top 4.2% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
8
- 5741 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 1020194 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 20080604 Akamai Technologies Security Advisory 2008-0001 (Download Manager) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 30537 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- downloadmanager-url-code-execution(42879) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20080604 Akamai Technologies Security Advisory 2008-0001 (Download Manager) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- ADV-2008-1746 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 20080605 Akamai Download Manager File Downloaded To Arbitrary Location Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_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-2008-1770 (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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