Security advisory

{
  "id": "ac58f6a5af9f567d8376e9b9beeccf1cca7dad80ba0c035884df4dbf6b93c677",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-5702",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2018-5702",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2018-5702",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2018-5702",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2018-5702"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/transmission/transmission",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "67ef7b888c37fdb85a6d0733c1cc2f0f7c585f66"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:transmissionbt:transmission:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "2.92"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "2.92",
            "2.91",
            "2.90",
            "2.83",
            "2.82",
            "2.81",
            "2.80",
            "2.74",
            "2.73",
            "2.72",
            "2.71",
            "2.70",
            "2.61",
            "2.60",
            "2.52",
            "2.51",
            "2.50",
            "2.50b1",
            "2.40",
            "2.40b3",
            "2.40b2",
            "2.40b1",
            "2.33",
            "2.32",
            "2.31",
            "2.30",
            "2.30b4",
            "2.30b3",
            "2.30b2",
            "2.30b1",
            "2.21",
            "2.20",
            "2.20b4",
            "2.20b3",
            "2.20b2",
            "2.20b1",
            "2.13",
            "2.12",
            "2.11",
            "2.10",
            "2.00",
            "1.91",
            "1.90",
            "1.83",
            "1.82",
            "1.81",
            "1.80",
            "1.80b5",
            "1.74",
            "1.73",
            "1.72",
            "1.71",
            "1.70",
            "1.61",
            "1.60",
            "1.40",
            "1.32",
            "1.31",
            "1.22",
            "1.21",
            "1.20",
            "1.11",
            "1.10",
            "1.06",
            "0.80",
            "0.7",
            "0.6",
            "0.5"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-5702.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:50:27.501100692Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00020.html",
        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201806-07",
        "https://twitter.com/taviso/status/951526615145566208",
        "https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4087",
        "https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1447",
        "https://github.com/transmission/transmission/pull/468",
        "https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43665/"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
              "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
              "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "debian:debian_linux",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "7.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "7.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "introduced": "8.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "8.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "introduced": "9.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "9.0"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2018-5702",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 381727,
  "published_at": "2018-01-15T16:29:00.237+00:00"
}