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CVE-2009-1760

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-1760 describes a directory traversal vulnerability in Rasterbar libtorrent versions prior to 0.14.4, affecting applications like firetorrent, qBittorrent, and deluge Torrent. This flaw allows remote attackers to create or overwrite arbitrary files on a victim's system by crafting a malicious .torrent file containing ".." and partial relative pathnames. With a CVSS score of 5.8, this vulnerability has a network attack vector, medium attack complexity, and could lead to partial integrity and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.14.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rasterbar_software:libtorrent:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rasterbar_software:libtorrent:0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.12CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rasterbar_software:libtorrent:0.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.12.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rasterbar_software:libtorrent:0.12.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.8MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
4.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.01%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
78.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0201 is in the 64th percentile among its peer group of 19,953 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2009-1760Important

rb_libtorrent: arbitrary file overwrite vulnerability

References

census-labs.com / news/2009/06/08/libtorrent-rasterbar
ExploitPatch
secunia.com / advisories/35277
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/35848
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200907-14.xml
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/51008
sourceforge.net / project/shownotes.php
Patch
debian.org / security/2009/dsa-1815
mandriva.com / security/advisories
securityfocus.com / archive/1/504151/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/35262
Patch
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/1534
PatchVendor Advisory