MEDIUM5.5

PYSEC-2026-38

Details

Deluge 1.3.15 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows local attackers to crash the application by supplying an excessively long string in the Webseeds field. Attackers can paste a buffer of 5000 bytes into the Webseeds field during torrent creation to trigger an application crash.

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Affected packages

PyPI/deluge

Introduced in: 0

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References

http://download.deluge-torrent.org/windows/deluge-1.3.15-win32-py2.7.exe[WEB]
https://dev.deluge-torrent.org/[WEB]
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/deluge-denial-of-service-via-webseeds-field[ADVISORY]
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46884[EVIDENCE]