CVE-2008-0364
Buffer overflow in (1) BitTorrent 6.0 and earlier; and (2) uTorrent 1.7.5 and earlier, and 1.8-alpha-7834 and earlier in the 1.8.x series;…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 8.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 4.7% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Buffer overflow in (1) BitTorrent 6.0 and earlier; and (2) uTorrent 1.7.5 and earlier, and 1.8-alpha-7834 and earlier in the 1.8.x series; on Windows allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long Unicode string representing a client version identifier.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- BitTorrent 6.0 / uTorrent 1.6/1.7 - Peers Window Remote Code Execution (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 31032remote, windowspublished 16 Jan 2008Verified
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Timeline
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Published
- 17 years later
· 17 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 8.9% · top 4.7% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
11
- 27321 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://aluigi.org/poc/ruttorrent.zip (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 28537 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 28533 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20080116 Peers static overflow in BitTorrent 6.0 and uTorrent 1.7.5 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=29330 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 3554 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/ruttorrent-adv.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- utorrent-peers-bo(39720) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://download.utorrent.com/1.7.6/utorrent-1.7.6.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- bittorrent-peers-bo(39719) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2008-0374 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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