CVE-2026-116748

NameCVE-2026-116748
DescriptionTransmission 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.
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Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
transmission (PTS)bookworm3.00-2.1+deb12u1vulnerable
trixie4.1.0~beta2+dfsg-3+deb13u2vulnerable
forky, sid4.1.3+dfsg-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
transmissionsource(unstable)4.1.3+dfsg-1

Notes

https://github.com/transmission/transmission/pull/8938
Fixed by: https://github.com/transmission/transmission/commit/c6a1bd2017a0fea9c956737c213f23e4b0f7929e (4.1.3)

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