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…
- 8.8HighCVSS base score
- 11.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 3.9% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
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.
Public exploit
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- Transmission - RPC DNS Rebinding (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 43665remote, multiplepublished 11 Jan 2018Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 43665 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 11.9% · top 3.9% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
7
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1447 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 43665 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- DSA-4087 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- https://github.com/transmission/transmission/pull/468 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- GLSA-201806-07 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- https://twitter.com/taviso/status/951526615145566208 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20180118 [SECURITY] [DLA 1246-1] transmission security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2018-17471 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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