Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-5702  

The transmission-daemon in Transmission before 2.93 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.

Severity High

Remote Yes

Type Arbitrary command execution

Description

The transmission-daemon in Transmission before 2.93 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.

AVG-588 transmission-cli 2.92-7 2.92-8 High Fixed FS#57086

17 Jan 2018 ASA-201801-13 AVG-588 transmission-cli High arbitrary command execution

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/01/12/1
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1447
https://github.com/transmission/transmission/commit/eb5d1a79cbe1b9bc5b22fdcc598694ecd4d02f43
https://github.com/transmission/transmission/pull/468