Secunia Research has discovered a security issue in AOL, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to manipulate arbitrary files. The problem is that AOL sets insecure default permissions (grants “Everyone” group “Full Control”) on the “America Online 9.0” directory and all child objects. This can be exploited to remove, manipulate, and replace any of the application’s files.
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