CVE-2017-12778 SUSE CVE security@suse.de SUSE Security Team SUSE CVE-2017-12778 Interim 1 5 2025-10-05T02:14:54Z current 2021-05-30T14:00:12Z 2025-10-05T02:14:54Z cve-database/bin/generate-cvrf-cve.pl 2020-12-27T01:00:00Z CVE-2017-12778 The UI Lock feature in qBittorrent version 3.3.15 is vulnerable to Authentication Bypass, which allows Attack to gain unauthorized access to qBittorrent functions by tampering the affected flag value of the config file at the C:\Users\<username>\Roaming\qBittorrent pathname. The attacker must change the value of the "locked" attribute to "false" within the "Locking" stanza. NOTE: This is an intended behavior. See https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/wiki/I-forgot-my-UI-lock-password The CVRF data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0). https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/ SUSE Security Ratings The UI Lock feature in qBittorrent version 3.3.15 is vulnerable to Authentication Bypass, which allows Attack to gain unauthorized access to qBittorrent functions by tampering the affected flag value of the config file at the C:\Users\<username>\Roaming\qBittorrent pathname. The attacker must change the value of the "locked" attribute to "false" within the "Locking" stanza. NOTE: This is an intended behavior. See https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/wiki/I-forgot-my-UI-lock-password CVE-2017-12778 important 3.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N 7.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N