High severity · published Jan 15, 2018
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…
8.8
CVSS
11.9%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)11.9% · higher than 96% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
7.0; 8.0; 9.0 · source: NVD
TR
Transmission · Transmissionbt
through 2.92 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-5702
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-5702
Exploit
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1447
Exploit
https://github.com/transmission/transmission/pull/468
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00020.html
Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201806-07
Third Party Advisory
https://twitter.com/taviso/status/951526615145566208
Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4087
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