CVE-2026-38978

transmission through 4.1.1 was found to have a clickjacking weakness in the browser-facing WebUI and RPC response paths.

Published: 2026-06-02 Last update: 2026-06-17 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2026-38978 is rated Low Risk (29.2/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.30%). Mandatory action: Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2026-38978

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 2026-06-15 0.02% 0.30% +0.29%
2 2026-06-03 0.02%

Full EPSS history (2 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2026-38978

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.3 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:N)
Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:L)
Attackers could change some data, but it’s limited—not everything goes.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
3.9 1.4 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2026-38978

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2026-38978

GHSA-6rg3-8m29-j28q · Severity: medium — transmission through 4.1.1 was found to have a clickjacking weakness in the browser-facing WebUI...

OS Trackers for CVE-2026-38978

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2026-38978 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (transmission), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): open 3, resolved 2. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-38978
ubuntu medium CVE-2026-38978 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (transmission), 8 status rows across 8 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, questing, resolute, upstream, xenial): released 5, needs-triage 3. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-38978

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2026-38978

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
No affected products in dataset.

References for CVE-2026-38978

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