A vulnerability has been identified in Akamai Download Manager, which could be exploited by remote attackers to take complete control of an affected system. This issue is caused by a design error related to two undocumented object parameters, which could be exploited by attackers to automatically download and execute arbitrary binaries by tricking a user into visiting a specially crafted web page.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Peter Vreugdenhil via iDefense Labs.
ChangeLog
2008-05-02 : Initial release
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