Vulnerability Report

CVE-2009-5134

Title: Utorrent RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2009-5134

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date Jan 18, 2013

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 6.8 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

7.71%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2009-5134: Buffer overflow in the "create torrent dialog" functionality in uTorrent 1.8.3 build 15772, and possibly other versions before 1.8.3 (Build 16010), allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a text file containing a large string. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Impacted Vendors

utorrent 1

bittorrent 1

Reference Links

http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=58768 http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9539 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/52907 http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=58768 http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9539 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/52907

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-2009-5134 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9539

View Code

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

January 18, 2013 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.