CVE-2017-12778

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

Score

CVSS 3.0 7.1 High

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2019-05-09

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-287

Affected products

• Qbittorrent (Qbittorrent)

References

• http://archive.is/eF2GR
• https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/wiki/I-forgot-my-UI-lock-password
• https://medium.com/%40BaYinMin/cve-2017-12778-qbittorrent-ui-lock-authentication-bypass-30959ff55ada