CVE-2018-5702 EXPLOIT
8.8
HIGH · CVSS 3.0 · EPSS 11.9% (pctl 96)
Patch early
A public exploit exists.
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.
Scoring
| CVSS | 8.8 (HIGH, v3.0) |
|---|---|
| Vector | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 11.93% — more likely to be exploited than 96% of all CVEs |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | yes |
| Published | 2018-01-15 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-17 |
Affected (2)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| debian | debian linux |
| transmissionbt | transmission |
Public exploits
| Source | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| exploit-db | Transmission - RPC DNS Rebinding | 2018-01-11 |
References
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1447
- https://github.com/transmission/transmission/pull/468
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00020.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201806-07
- https://twitter.com/taviso/status/951526615145566208
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4087
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43665/
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1447
- https://github.com/transmission/transmission/pull/468
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00020.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201806-07
- https://twitter.com/taviso/status/951526615145566208
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4087
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43665/
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