Vulnerability · Published Mar 2, 2020 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2020-8437
High 7.5
In plain English
A high-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 12.0% (higher than 96% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code.
Severity (CVSS NVD)7.5High
Exploit odds (30 days)12.0%top 3.8% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack tooling1Public PoC
Official description
The bencoding parser in BitTorrent uTorrent through 3.5.5 (build 45505) misparses nested bencoded dictionaries, which allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://forum.utorrent.com/forum/13-announcements/ x_refsource_MISC
- https://twitter.com/va_start x_refsource_MISC
- https://utclient.utorrent.com/offers/beta_release_notes/release_notes.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://blog.whtaguy.com/2020/09/utorrent-cve-2020-8437-vulnerability.html x_refsource_MISC