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DEBIAN-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 atta...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 transmission

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.92-3"}]}]

Debian:13 transmission

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.92-3"}]}]

Debian:14 transmission

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.92-3"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org