CVE-2009-3658
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…
- 8.8HighCVSS base score
- 8.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 4.7% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
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 execute arbitrary code via a malformed argument to the SetSuperBuddy method.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- AOL 9.1 SuperBuddy - ActiveX Control Remote code Execution (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 9992remote, windowspublished 1 Oct 2009Verified
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Timeline
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Published
- 15 years later
· 15 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 | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 8.9% · top 4.7% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References7
- http://retrogod.altervista.org/9sg_aol_91_superbuddy.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- ADV-2009-2812 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 20091001 AOL 9.1 SuperBuddy ActiveX Control SetSuperBuddy() remote code execution exploit (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 36580 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6704 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 36919 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- aol-superbuddy-activex-code-exec(53614) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_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-2009-3633 (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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