CVE-2009-3617

Severity: high (CVSS 7.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-10-20 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-134

Description

Format string vulnerability in the AbstractCommand::onAbort function in src/AbstractCommand.cc in aria2 before 1.6.2, when logging is enabled, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via format string specifiers in a download URI. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa Aria2: through 1.6.1; 0.11.3, 0.11.4, 0.11.5, 0.12.0, 0.12.1, 0.13.0 (+30)

References

http://aria2.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/aria2/trunk/NEWS?revision=1586
http://aria2.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/aria2/trunk/src/AbstractCommand.cc?r1=1539&r2=1572
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125568632528906&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125572053420493&w=2
http://osvdb.org/59087
http://secunia.com/advisories/31732
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2960
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=529342
https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/2495
http://aria2.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/aria2/trunk/NEWS?revision=1586
http://aria2.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/aria2/trunk/src/AbstractCommand.cc?r1=1539&r2=1572
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125568632528906&w=2

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