CVE-2007-1891: Akamai Technologies Download Manager

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 6.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack-based buffer overflow in the GetPrivateProfileSectionW function in Akamai Technologies Download Manager ActiveX Control (DownloadManagerV2.ocx) after 2.0.4.4 but before 2.2.1.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code, related to misinterpretation of the nSize parameter as a byte count instead of a wide character count.

Affected products

Published 2007-04-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.