VulnerabilityModified

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 consequently write to arbitrary files, via POST requests…

HIGH 8.8EPSS 11.9%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 11.9%, higher than 96% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

CVSS 3.0: 8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS: 11.93% probability · 96th percentile
CISA KEV: Not listed
Affected: transmissionbt/transmission · debian/debian linux
Source: cve@mitre.org

References

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1447Exploit, Issue Tracking, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/transmission/transmission/pull/468Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00020.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201806-07Third Party Advisory
https://twitter.com/taviso/status/951526615145566208Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4087Third Party Advisory
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43665/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1447Exploit, Issue Tracking, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/transmission/transmission/pull/468Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00020.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201806-07Third Party Advisory
https://twitter.com/taviso/status/951526615145566208Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4087Third Party Advisory
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43665/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.