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CVE-2018-10756 json

Use-after-free in libtransmission/variant.c in Transmission before 3.00 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or pos…

published 6y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2018-2826

cvss
7.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.7%
EPSS 2.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 86%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Use-after-free in libtransmission/variant.c in Transmission before 3.00 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted torrent file.

Patch / fix

  • transmissionbt transmission 3.00
  • transmission Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 3.00-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2018-10756

  • transmission Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +10 more 3.00-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2018-10756

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

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Vendor advisories

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red hat product security vex CVE-2018-10756 updated cvss 7.5

transmission: use-after-free in libtransmission/variant.c allows remote attackers to cause a DoS

  • 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

2.70% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 86% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • tomrichards.net https://tomrichards.net/2020/05/cve-2018-10756-transmission/ referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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Sources

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