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
02 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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 11.92% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 95.9% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 8.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2018-01-15 16:00Z8 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 05:40Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2018-01-15
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- d11217c3652c23cd6d62856c18cbbfc351df43e16c8afd19e26e119f0525eb9a
05 Affected products
06 References
- bugs.chromium.orghttps://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1447
- www.exploit-db.com43665https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43665/
- www.debian.orgDSA-4087https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4087
- github.comhttps://github.com/transmission/transmission/pull/468
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201806-07https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201806-07
- twitter.comhttps://twitter.com/taviso/status/951526615145566208
- lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20180118 [SECURITY] [DLA 1246-1] transmission security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00020.html
07 Fixed in
Arch Linux
- transmission-cli Fixed in 2.92-8
Source: Arch Linux Security Tracker, the Arch Linux security team. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 12
- transmission Fixed in 2.92-3
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- transmission Fixed in 2.92-3
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- transmission Fixed in 2.92-3
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- transmission Fixed in 2.82-1.1ubuntu3.2
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- transmission Fixed in 2.84-3ubuntu3.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.