ubuntu · CVE-2018-5702

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Priority: medium Published: 2018-01-15 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:56:27 UTC

View at Official ubuntu advisory, NVD, CVE.org · CVE detail

Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2018-5702 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (transmission), 4 status rows across 4 suites (artful, trusty, upstream, xenial): released 3, needs-triage 1.

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.

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