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Re:RCE Vulnerability in QBittorrent by eptcyka on Saturday November 02, 2024 @02:54PM (#42028363)
You wouldn’t download QBitTorrent, you would use QBitTorrent on unsafe networks, which is not far fetched at all.
Re:RCE Vulnerability in QBittorrent by duskwuff on Saturday November 02, 2024 @05:20PM (#42029289)
But ordinary use of qBitTorrent is fine. The only part with a clear path to code execution (assuming MITM and no certificate verification) is the initial install of Python - which is only required for certain features, only installs once, and requires user confirmation to start.
Re:RCE Vulnerability in QBittorrent by 0x457 on Saturday November 02, 2024 @05:54PM (#42029473)
The download with unverified certificate only triggered on windows if there isn't "good enough" version of python installed. If it's already installed then nothing needs to be downloaded.

Again, this vulnerability can't exploited unless attacker is able MitM you or python.org is hijacked.

It's very hard to exploit in real-life en-masse. Targeted attack is possible, but it requires attacker to:

1) Be able to do MitM in the first place

2) You need to use qBitTorrent

3) You need to use Windows

4) You must not have python version installed that supported by qBitTorrent

Without all 4 this can't be exploited.