CVE-2006-5650

Exp

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.

Published: 2006-11-07 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2006-5650 is rated High Exploit Risk (77.1/100): CVSS High severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 80.97%, 99th percentile). 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2006-5650

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
16554 exploit_db edb 2010-11-24 Exploit-DB ↗
28916 exploit_db edb 2006-11-06 Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2006-5650

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-05-17 83.55% 80.97% -2.57%
2 2026-04-27 83.24% 83.55% +0.31%
3 2026-01-21 — 83.24% —

Full EPSS history (16 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2006-5650

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.5 2.0 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 10.0 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2006-5650

OS Trackers for CVE-2006-5650

vendor priority summary link
alpine — CVE-2006-5650: no source package rows; 0 state rows across 0 repos (none); fixed 0, open 0. https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2006-5650

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2006-5650

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
aol icq 5.1 cpe:2.3:a:aol:icq:5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2006-5650

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