CVE-2008-0364

Exp

Buffer overflow in (1) BitTorrent 6.0 and earlier; and (2) uTorrent 1.7.5 and earlier, and 1.8-alpha-7834 and earlier in the 1.8.x series; on Windows allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long Unicode string representing a client version identifier.

Published: 2008-01-18 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2008-0364 is rated High Exploit Risk (72.5/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 8.89%, 95th percentile). Core evidence: 3 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +4.40% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2008-0364

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
31032 exploit_db edb 2008-01-16 Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2008-0364

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 4.49% 8.89% +4.40%
2 2026-06-07 5.84% 4.49% -1.35%
3 2025-11-06 5.84%

Full EPSS history (15 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2008-0364

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
10.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2008-0364

OS Trackers for CVE-2008-0364

vendor priority summary link
redhat https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-0364

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2008-0364

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
bittorrent bittorrent <= 6.0 cpe:2.3:a:bittorrent:bittorrent:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
utorrent utorrent <= 1.7.5 cpe:2.3:a:utorrent:utorrent:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
utorrent utorrent 1.8-alpha-7834 cpe:2.3:a:utorrent:utorrent:1.8-alpha-7834:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2008-0364

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