CVE-2008-5905: Ktorrent

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The web interface plugin in KTorrent before 3.1.4 allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and upload arbitrary torrent files, and trigger the start of downloads and seeding, via a crafted HTTP POST request.

Affected products

• Ktorrent Ktorrent: up to and including 3.1.3; version 0.9 only; version 1.0 only; version 1.1 only; version 1.2 only; version 2.0 only; …

Published 2009-01-15. Last modified 2026-06-16.