Bug 2561452 (CVE-2026-116748)

Summary: CVE-2026-116748 transmission: Transmission: Arbitrary code execution via overly permissive CORS policy
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A flaw was found in Transmission. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code, modify application settings, or delete data by exploiting an overly permissive Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) policy in the remote procedure call (RPC) server. By tricking a user into visiting a malicious website, an attacker can capture the exposed session token from handshake responses and replay it to issue unauthorized RPC commands to the local Transmission service.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-26 22:33:48 UTC
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.