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CVE-2008-6586 (GCVE-0-2008-6586)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-04-03 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 11:34
VLAI
Summary
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in gui/index.php in µTorrent (uTorrent) WebUI 0.315 allows remote attackers to (1) hijack the authentication of users for requests that force the download of arbitrary torrent files via the add-url action and (2) hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that modify the administrator account via the setsetting action.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/491066/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://osvdb.org/44647 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28847 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
Date Public
2008-04-18 00:00
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