CVE-2026-116748
highTransmission 4.0.0 before 4.1.3 contains a permissive CORS vulnerability in handle_request() in rpc-server.cc that exposes the X-Transmission-Session-Id anti-C…
Transmission 4.0.0 before 4.1.3 contains a permissive CORS vulnerability in handle_request() in rpc-server.cc that exposes the X-Transmission-Session-Id anti-CSRF token to any web origin. Malicious web pages can read the token from the 409 handshake response and replay it to issue RPC calls, enabling script-torrent-done execution, download-dir changes, or torrent and data deletion.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Affected products
Not reported by the source (unknown — not "none").
Weakness classification (CWE)
Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.
Mitigation & advisories
No vendor advisory or patch reference tagged by NVD. Check the references below.
References
- https://github.com/transmission/transmission disclosure@vulncheck.com
- https://github.com/transmission/transmission/blob/4.1.2/libtransmission/rpc-server.cc#L560 disclosure@vulncheck.com
- https://github.com/transmission/transmission/commit/c6a1bd2017a0fea9c956737c213f23e4b0f792... disclosure@vulncheck.com
- https://github.com/transmission/transmission/pull/8938 disclosure@vulncheck.com
- https://github.com/transmission/transmission/releases/tag/4.1.3 disclosure@vulncheck.com
- https://joshua.hu/transmission-cors-rpc-csrf-rce-drive-by-exploit disclosure@vulncheck.com
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/transmission-4.0.0-before-4.1.3-permissive-cors-leaks... disclosure@vulncheck.com
