CVE-2018-5702

Severity

68%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

106%

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.

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 3.0 Base Score 8.8. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.8. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

Debian Linux

First reported 7 years ago

2018-01-15 16:29:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-10-03 00:03:00

Affected Software

Debian Linux 7.0

7.0

Debian Linux 8.0 (Jessie)

8.0

Debian Linux 9.0

9.0

References

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1447

Exploit, Issue Tracking, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory

https://github.com/transmission/transmission/pull/468

Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory

[debian-lts-announce] 20180118 [SECURITY] [DLA 1246-1] transmission security update

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory

GLSA-201806-07

Third Party Advisory

https://twitter.com/taviso/status/951526615145566208

Third Party Advisory

DSA-4087

Third Party Advisory

43665

Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

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