Vulnerability in Transmissionbt Transmission
CVE-2018-5702
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 P…
EPSS: 0.119 (95.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 8.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.
Affected products
- Transmissionbt Transmission
- Debian Debian_linux — versions 7.0, 8.0, 9.0
- N/a — versions n/a
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- cve@mitre.org (Technical Description, Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking)
- cve@mitre.org (Exploit, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN)
- cve@mitre.org (Technical Description, Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO)
- cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2018-5702?
- CVE-2018-5702 is a high-severity vulnerability in Transmissionbt Transmission. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2018-01-15.
- How severe is CVE-2018-5702?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2018-5702 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.