CVE-2018-5702

Summary

CVECVE-2018-5702
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-01-15 16:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-03 00:03:00 UTC
DescriptionTransmission 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 7.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 7.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Application Transmissionbt Transmission All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Tavis Ormandy en Twitter: "First of a few remote code execution flaws in various popular torrent clients, here is a DNS rebinding vulnerability Transmission, resulting in arbitrary remote code execution. https://t.co/kAv9eWfXlG" MISC twitter.com Third Party Advisory
Transmission - RPC DNS Rebinding EXPLOIT-DB www.exploit-db.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
CVE-2018-5702: Mitigate dns rebinding attacks against daemon by taviso · Pull Request #468 · transmission/transmission · GitHub MISC github.com Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4087-1 transmission DEBIAN www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
1447 - transmission: rpc session-id mechanism design flaw - project-zero - Monorail MISC bugs.chromium.org Exploit, Issue Tracking, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] [DLA 1246-1] transmission security update MLIST lists.debian.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Transmission: Remote code execution (GLSA 201806-07) — Gentoo Security GENTOO security.gentoo.org Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 710265 Gentoo Linux Transmission Remote code execution Vulnerability (GLSA 201806-07)
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