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CVE-2008-7166

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-7166 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in the web interface of BitTorrent 6.0.1 and earlier, and uTorrent 1.7.6 and earlier. A remote attacker can exploit this flaw by sending a crafted Range header, leading to memory consumption and a denial of service (crash) of the affected application. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, with a low attack complexity and no authentication required, but only impacts availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 6.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:bittorrent:bittorrent:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.9.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:bittorrent:bittorrent:3.9.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:bittorrent:bittorrent:4.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:bittorrent:bittorrent:4.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:bittorrent:bittorrent:4.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.85%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0285 is in the 79th percentile among its peer group of 23,701 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

aluigi.altervista.org / adv/ruttorrent2-adv.txt
osvdb.org / 42825
osvdb.org / 42826
secunia.com / advisories/28686
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/28695
Vendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/0326
Vendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/0327
Vendor Advisory