CVE-2017-12778

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Summary

CVECVE-2017-12778
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-05-09 17:29:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 02:38:00 UTC
Description** DISPUTED ** The UI Lock feature in qBittorrent version 3.3.15 is vulnerable to Authentication Bypass, which allows Attack to gain unauthorized access to qBittorrent functions by tampering the affected flag value of the config file at the C:\Users\<username>\Roaming\qBittorrent pathname. The attacker must change the value of the "locked" attribute to "false" within the "Locking" stanza. NOTE: This is an intended behavior. See https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/wiki/I-forgot-my-UI-lock-password.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-287

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Qbittorrent Qbittorrent 3.3.15 All All All
Application Qbittorrent Qbittorrent 3.3.15 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
I forgot my UI lock password · qbittorrent/qBittorrent Wiki · GitHub MISC github.com
[CVE-2017–12778] qBittorrent UI Lock - Authentication Bypass medium.com
[CVE-2017–12778] qBittorrent UI Lock - Authentication Bypass MISC medium.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
archive.is/eF2GR MISC archive.is Exploit, Third Party Advisory
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