CVE-2018-10756

moderate-risk

Published 2020-05-15

Use-after-free in libtransmission/variant.c in Transmission before 3.00 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted torrent file.

Do I need to act?

2.4% chance of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS score — moderate exploit probability

Not on CISA KEV list

No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA

Patch status unknown

Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance

CVSS 7.8/10 High

LOCAL / LOW complexity

Affected Products (5)

Transmission

Debian Linux

Fedora

Affected Vendors

Debian Fedoraproject Transmissionbt

References (14)

Patch https://github.com/transmission/transmission/commit/2123adf8e5e1c2b48791f9d22fc8...

Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00022.html

Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00001.html

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedorapro...

Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-07

Exploit https://tomrichards.net/2020/05/cve-2018-10756-transmission/

Patch https://github.com/transmission/transmission/commit/2123adf8e5e1c2b48791f9d22fc8...

Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00022.html

Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00001.html

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedorapro...

Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-07

Exploit https://tomrichards.net/2020/05/cve-2018-10756-transmission/

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moderate-risk

Severity 24/34 · High

Exploitability 5/34 · Minimal

Exposure 12/34 · Low