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.
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.
| 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 ↗ |
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)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.0 | 2.0 | MEDIUM |
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10.0 | 2.9 | [email protected] |
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
redhat
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— | — | https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/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:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |