Transmission through 2.92 relies on X-Transmission-Session-Id (which is not a forbidden header for Fetch) for access control, which allows…

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

11.9% · top 3.9% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (7)

• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1447 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• 43665 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
• DSA-4087 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• https://github.com/transmission/transmission/pull/468 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• GLSA-201806-07 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• https://twitter.com/taviso/status/951526615145566208 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• [debian-lts-announce] 20180118 [SECURITY] [DLA 1246-1] transmission security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 5 Aug 2024, 05:40 UTC.