Transmission before 1.92 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly have other unspecified impact via a large numb…

published 2019-10-30 7 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2010-0774

cvss: 9.8; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.9%; EPSS 1.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 79%
public exploits: 0; none known

Transmission before 1.92 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly have other unspecified impact via a large number of tr arguments in a magnet link.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1 distros 1 links 2

transmissionbt transmission 1.92

transmission Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.92-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2010-0748

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2010-0748 advisory
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/04/01/9 advisory

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2010-0748 updated 2025-11-21 cvss 5.0

Transmission: Two security fixes in upstream v1.92 version

Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.88% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 79% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

trac.transmissionbt.com https://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/2965 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	9.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	7.5	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

transmission transmission

Classification

Weakness

CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

bugzilla.redhat.com /show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2010-0748
issue-tracking, patch, third-party-advisory
openwall.com /lists/oss-security/2010/04/01/9
mailing-list, patch, third-party-advisory
trac.transmissionbt.com /ticket/2965
exploit, issue-tracking, vendor-advisory
security-tracker.debian.org /tracker/CVE-2010-0748
third-party-advisory
github.com /transmission/transmission/wiki/Release-Notes#transmission-192-20100314
release-notes, third-party-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2010-0748
NVD CVE-2010-0748

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

Summary