Remote Code Execution and File Write Vulnerability in Transmission 2.92

CVE-2018-5702 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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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