CVE-2009-3617: Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa ARIA2

High severity, CVSS 7.6. EPSS: 4.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Format string vulnerability in the AbstractCommand::onAbort function in src/AbstractCommand.cc in aria2 before 1.6.2, when logging is enabled, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via format string specifiers in a download URI. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

• Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa ARIA2: up to and including 1.6.1; version 0.11.3 only; version 0.11.4 only; version 0.11.5 only; version 0.12.0 only; version 0.12.1 only; …

Published 2009-10-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.