CVE-2019-25585

MEDIUM

Deluge 1.3.15 Denial of Service via Webseeds Field

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2019-25585. PoCs published by Victor Mondragón.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This PoC exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in Deluge 1.3.15 by writing a large string of 'A' characters to a file, which when pasted into the 'Webseeds' field of the Deluge torrent creation interface, causes a denial of service (crash).

Description

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.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC
by Victor Mondragón · pythondoswindows
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46884

This PoC exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in Deluge 1.3.15 by writing a large string of 'A' characters to a file, which when pasted into the 'Webseeds' field of the Deluge torrent creation interface, causes a denial of service (crash).

Classification
Working Poc 95%
Attack Type
Dos
Complexity
Trivial
Reliability
Reliable
Target: Deluge 1.3.15
No auth needed
Prerequisites: Deluge 1.3.15 installed on the target system · User interaction to paste the malicious input into the 'Webseeds' field
devstral-2 · analyzed Mar 22, 2026 Full analysis →

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Exploit exploit
ExploitDB-46884
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46884
Product product
Official Product Homepage
https://dev.deluge-torrent.org/
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory
VulnCheck Advisory: Deluge 1.3.15 Denial of Service via Webseeds Field
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/deluge-denial-of-service-via-webseeds-field

Scores

CVSS v3 6.2
EPSS 0.0018
EPSS Percentile 7.5%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-1260
Status published
Products (2)
deluge-torrent/deluge 1.3.15
Dev/Deluge 1.3.15
Published Mar 22, 2026
Tracked Since Mar 22, 2026