vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2021-3427: Deluge: Cross-Site Scripting

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Aug 26, 2022
Added
Oct 17, 2022
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

Description

The Deluge Web-UI is vulnerable to XSS through a crafted torrent file. The the data from torrent files is not properly sanitised as it's interpreted directly as HTML. Someone who supplies the user with a malicious torrent file can execute arbitrary Javascript code in the context of the user's browser session.

Solution

gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-p2p-deluge
Title
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