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Fencer Vulns
high 8.1

CVE-2024-51774 json

qBittorrent before 5.0.1 proceeds with use of https URLs even after certificate validation errors.

published 2024-11-02 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-45535

cvss
8.1
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.3%
EPSS 3.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 88%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

qBittorrent before 5.0.1 proceeds with use of https URLs even after certificate validation errors.

Patch / fix

  • qbittorrent qbittorrent 5.0.1
  • qbittorrent Debian 14, Debian 13 5.0.1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2024-51774

  • qbittorrent Package Hub 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 5.0.1-bp156.3.6.1
  • qbittorrent openSUSE Tumbleweed 5.0.1-2.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:0358-1openSUSE-SU-2024:14459-1

  • qbittorrent Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +1 more 5.0.1-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2024-51774

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2024-51774 updated cvss 8.1

qBittorrent: RCE Vulnerability in qBittorrent Due to Improper SSL/TLS Certificate Validation

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-52190)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

3.30% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-52190 qBittorrent 5.0.1 - MITM RCE local, 2025-04-11
  • sharpsec.run https://sharpsec.run/rce-vulnerability-in-qbittorrent/ referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA 3.1 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

  • qbittorrent qbittorrent

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.