8.8
CVSSv3

CVE-2010-0012

Published: 08/01/2010 Updated: 26/01/2024
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.8 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
CVSS v3 Base Score: 8.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 2.8
VMScore: 605
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

Directory traversal vulnerability in libtransmission/metainfo.c in Transmission 1.22, 1.34, 1.75, and 1.76 allows remote malicious users to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a pathname within a .torrent file.

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transmissionbt transmission 1.22

transmissionbt transmission 1.75

transmissionbt transmission 1.76

transmissionbt transmission 1.34

debian debian linux 5.0

opensuse opensuse 11.1

opensuse opensuse 11.0

opensuse opensuse 11.2

Vendor Advisories

It was discovered that the Transmission web interface was vulnerable to cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted web page in a browser while Transmission was running, an attacker could trigger commands in Transmission This issue affected Ubuntu 904 (CVE-2009-1757) ...
Dan Rosenberg discovered that Transmission, a lightwight client for the Bittorrent filesharing protocol, performs insufficient sanitising of file names specified in torrent files This could lead to the overwrite of local files with the privileges of the user running Transmission if the user is tricked into opening a malicious torrent file For th ...