Improper Certificate Validation in qBittorrent - CVE-2024-51774

 

Improper Certificate Validation in qBittorrent - CVE-2024-51774

Published: November 25, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU100913
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-51774
CWE-ID: CWE-295
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform MitM attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application ignores certificate errors and proceeds with connection to such URLs. A remote attacker can perform man-in-the-middle (MitM) attack.


Affected software

qBittorrent
Fedora
qbittorrent

How to mitigate CVE-2024-51774

Install updates from vendor's website.

qBittorrent - update to 5.0.1
qbittorrent - addressed in versions 5.0.2-1.fc40, 5.0.2-1.fc41

External References

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