Vulnerability Report

CVE-2008-6586

Title: Utorrent Utorrent Webui Path Traversal / LFI

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2008-6586

CWE Category CWE-352

Published Date Apr 03, 2009

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 6.8 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.70%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2008-6586: 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.

Impacted Vendors

utorrent 1

Reference Links

http://osvdb.org/44647 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/491066/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28847 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41926 http://osvdb.org/44647 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/491066/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28847 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41926

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.8

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2008-6586 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/31672

View Code

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

April 03, 2009 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.