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.
References
Link Resource
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1447 Exploit Issue Tracking Technical Description Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/transmission/transmission/pull/468 Exploit Technical Description Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00020.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201806-07 Third Party Advisory
https://twitter.com/taviso/status/951526615145566208 Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4087 Third Party Advisory
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43665/ Exploit VDB Entry Third Party Advisory
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2018-01-15T16:00:00

Updated: 2018-10-21T09:57:02

Reserved: 2018-01-15T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2018-5702

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2018-01-15T16:29:00.237

Modified: 2019-10-03T00:03:26.223


Link: CVE-2018-5702

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