CVE-2008-6586

Exp

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.

Published: 2009-04-03 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2008-6586 is rated High Exploit Risk (74.1/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 2.72%). 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +2.45% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2008-6586

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
31672 exploit_db edb 2008-04-18 Exploit-DB ↗
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2008-6586

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 0.27% 2.72% +2.45%
2 2026-05-24 0.17% 0.27% +0.10%
3 2026-04-03 — 0.17% —

Full EPSS history (10 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2008-6586

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
6.8 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 8.6 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2008-6586

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2008-6586

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
utorrent utorrent_webui 0.315 cpe:2.3:a:utorrent:utorrent_webui:0.315:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2008-6586

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