Transmission before 1.92 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly have other unspecified impact via a large number of tr arguments in a magnet link.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2010-0748 is rated High Exploit Risk (78.2/100): CVSS Critical severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.86%). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.
Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.
| EDB-ID | Source | Kind | Published | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | nvd_ref | exploit_tag | Exploit-DB ↗ |
EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2025-03-30 | 2.35% | 0.86% | -1.50% |
| 2 | 2025-03-29 | 0.86% | 2.35% | +1.50% |
| 3 | 2025-03-19 | — | 0.86% | — |
Full EPSS history (10 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9.8 | 3.1 | CRITICAL |
|
3.9 | 5.9 | [email protected] |
| 7.5 | 2.0 | HIGH |
|
10.0 | 6.4 | [email protected] |
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
debian
|
medium | CVE-2010-0748 medium priority: Debian including 1 source packages (transmission), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. | https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-0748 |
redhat
|
low | — | https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-0748 |
ubuntu
|
medium | CVE-2010-0748 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (transmission), 6 status rows across 6 suites (hardy, lucid, maverick, natty, oneiric, upstream): not-affected 4, ignored 1, released 1. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2010-0748 |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| transmissionbt | transmission | < 1.92 | cpe:2.3:a:transmissionbt:transmission:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| debian | debian_linux | 8.0 | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| debian | debian_linux | 9.0 | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| debian | debian_linux | 10.0 | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2010-0748 | Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory |
| https://github.com/transmission/transmission/wiki/Release-Notes#transmission-192-20100314 | Release Notes Third Party Advisory |
| https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-0748 | Third Party Advisory |
| https://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/2965 | Exploit Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory |
| https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/04/01/9 | Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory |