CVE-2009-1760

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-06-11 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in src/torrent_info.cpp in Rasterbar libtorrent before 0.14.4, as used in firetorrent, qBittorrent, deluge Torrent, and other applications, allows remote attackers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) and partial relative pathname in a Multiple File Mode list element in a .torrent file.

Affected products

Rasterbar Software Libtorrent: through 0.14.3; 0, 0.12, 0.12.1

References

http://census-labs.com/news/2009/06/08/libtorrent-rasterbar/
http://secunia.com/advisories/35277
http://secunia.com/advisories/35848
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200907-14.xml
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=79942&release_id=686456
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1815
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:139
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/504151/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35262
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1534
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51008
http://census-labs.com/news/2009/06/08/libtorrent-rasterbar/

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