CVE-2018-5702
HIGH8.8EPSS 26.3%transmission - security update
Published: 1/15/2018Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2018-5702
Description
Transmission through 2.92 relies on X-Transmission-Session-Id (which is not a forbidden header for Fetch) for access control, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary RPC commands, and consequently write to arbitrary files, via POST requests to /transmission/rpc in conjunction with a DNS rebinding attack.
Affected packages (3)
- Debian/transmissionfrom 0, < 2.92-3
- Debian/transmissionfrom 0, < 2.52-3+nmu3
- Debian/transmissionfrom 0, < 2.84-0.2+deb8u1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH8.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |