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 in the embedded ActiveX control that does not restrict access to the "URL" property, which could be exploited by attackers to download and execute arbitrary files on a vulnerable system by tricking a user into visiting a specially crafted web page.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by cocoruder and Fortinet.
ChangeLog
2008-06-05 : Initial release
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