CVE-2026-116748
Full vulnerability record from the local CVENow database.
Description
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.
Severity
HIGH
CVSS score
8.7
(v4.0)
Vulnerability status
Received
Source identifier
Published
2026-10-26 22:16:59.610000
Last modified
2026-10-26 22:16:59.610000
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"sourceIdentifier": "[email protected]",
"published": "2026-10-26T22:16:59.610",
"lastModified": "2026-10-26T22:16:59.610",
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}
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"affected": [
{
"source": "[email protected]",
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"Automatable": "NOT_DEFINED",
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"references": [
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"url": "https://github.com/transmission/transmission",
"source": "[email protected]"
},
{
"url": "https://github.com/transmission/transmission/blob/4.1.2/libtransmission/rpc-server.cc#L560",
"source": "[email protected]"
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"url": "https://github.com/transmission/transmission/commit/c6a1bd2017a0fea9c956737c213f23e4b0f7929e",
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"url": "https://github.com/transmission/transmission/pull/8938",
"source": "[email protected]"
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{
"url": "https://github.com/transmission/transmission/releases/tag/4.1.3",
"source": "[email protected]"
},
{
"url": "https://joshua.hu/transmission-cors-rpc-csrf-rce-drive-by-exploit",
"source": "[email protected]"
},
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"source": "[email protected]"
}
]
}