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Vulnerabilities / CVE-2019-13640

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CVE-2019-13640

In qBittorrent before 4.1.7, the function Application::runExternalProg ...

Published Modified CWE 78
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Ubuntu (medium).

Description

In qBittorrent before 4.1.7, the function Application::runExternalProgram() located in app/application.cpp allows command injection via shell metacharacters in the torrent name parameter or current tracker parameter, as demonstrated by remote command execution via a crafted name within an RSS feed.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
alpine 3.16qbittorrent4.1.6-r3
alpine 3.17qbittorrent4.1.6-r3
alpine 3.18qbittorrent4.1.6-r3
alpine 3.19qbittorrent4.1.6-r3
alpine 3.20qbittorrent4.1.6-r3
alpine 3.21qbittorrent4.1.6-r3
alpine 3.22qbittorrent4.1.6-r3
alpine 3.23qbittorrent4.1.6-r3
alpine 3.24qbittorrent4.1.6-r3
alpine edgeqbittorrent4.1.6-r3
debian 10qbittorrent4.1.5-1+deb10u1
debian 11qbittorrent4.1.7-1
Show all 18 entries from 18 sources
SourcePackageFixed in
alpine 3.16qbittorrent4.1.6-r3
alpine 3.17qbittorrent4.1.6-r3
alpine 3.18qbittorrent4.1.6-r3
alpine 3.19qbittorrent4.1.6-r3
alpine 3.20qbittorrent4.1.6-r3
alpine 3.21qbittorrent4.1.6-r3
alpine 3.22qbittorrent4.1.6-r3
alpine 3.23qbittorrent4.1.6-r3
alpine 3.24qbittorrent4.1.6-r3
alpine edgeqbittorrent4.1.6-r3
debian 10qbittorrent4.1.5-1+deb10u1
debian 11qbittorrent4.1.7-1
debian 12qbittorrent4.1.7-1
debian 13qbittorrent4.1.7-1
debian 14qbittorrent4.1.7-1
debian 9qbittorrent3.3.7-3+deb9u1
echoqbittorrent4.1.7-1
ubuntu 18.04-ESMqbittorrentno fix listed

References

Vulnerability data compiled from the Trivy vulnerability database (trivy-db, Aqua Security, Apache License 2.0), which aggregates third-party advisories. CVE records are published by The MITRE Corporation under the CVE Terms of Use; CVE is a trademark of MITRE. This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. Severity, titles and advisory data from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC BY 4.0), Red Hat security data (CC BY 4.0) and the other sources linked on each entry. Entries may be summarised or re-formatted; the linked original is the authoritative record.