BitTorrent’s official client, uTorrent, has a security vulnerability involving its web client that allows attackers to take control of the application.<\/p>\n
The issue was reported by<\/a><\/strong> Google Project Zero researcher\u00a0Tavis Ormandy.<\/p>\n As per Project Zero’s policies, Ormandy gave BitTorrent 90 days to respond to his report.<\/p>\n BitTorrent sent Ormandy a beta build\u00a0of uTorrent Classic which appeared to fix the issue, although he cautioned there may still be security flaws.<\/p>\n “I think there is still a lot of unnecessary remote attack surface, but I don’t have any way to break the new build right now,” he said.<\/p>\n BitTorrent then rolled out a patch for the beta version of uTorrent and announced the security problems were fixed.<\/p>\n However, earlier today Ormandy revealed that BitTorrent had moved the vulnerability to a different location.<\/p>\n “The vulnerability is now public because a patch is available, and BitTorrent have already exhausted their 90 days anyway. I see no other option for affected users but to stop using uTorrent Web and contact BitTorrent and request a comprehensive patch,” he said.<\/p>\n uTorrent has a security vulnerability involving its web client.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":167895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[3536,15197],"class_list":["post-249495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-bittorrent","tag-utorrent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249495"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249495"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249545,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249495\/revisions\/249545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0BitTorrent to focus on uTorrent and Mainline client<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"