CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-12778

7.1 HIGH Published 2019-05-09 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-05-09
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
3.6 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-287

Description

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

Affected configurations

• qbittorrent qbittorrent 3.3.15

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-287 Improper Authentication weakness

References