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HistoryJan 15, 2018 - 12:00 a.m.

Debian DSA-4087-1 : transmission - security update

2018-01-1500:00:00
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9

6.8 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

8.8 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

0.017 Low

EPSS

Percentile

87.7%

Tavis Ormandy discovered a vulnerability in the Transmission BitTorrent client; insecure RPC handling between the Transmission daemon and the client interface(s) may result in the execution of arbitrary code if a user visits a malicious website while Transmission is running.

#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-4087. The text 
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(105802);
  script_version("3.6");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/04/05 23:25:05");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2018-5702");
  script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"4087");

  script_name(english:"Debian DSA-4087-1 : transmission - security update");
  script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"Tavis Ormandy discovered a vulnerability in the Transmission
BitTorrent client; insecure RPC handling between the Transmission
daemon and the client interface(s) may result in the execution of
arbitrary code if a user visits a malicious website while Transmission
is running."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=886990"
  );
  # https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/transmission
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?1861ed77"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/transmission"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/transmission"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4087"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:
"Upgrade the transmission packages.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed
in version 2.84-0.2+deb8u1.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.92-2+deb9u1."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:transmission");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2018/01/14");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/01/15");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("debian_package.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"transmission", reference:"2.84-0.2+deb8u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"transmission-cli", reference:"2.84-0.2+deb8u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"transmission-common", reference:"2.84-0.2+deb8u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"transmission-daemon", reference:"2.84-0.2+deb8u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"transmission-dbg", reference:"2.84-0.2+deb8u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"transmission-gtk", reference:"2.84-0.2+deb8u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"transmission-qt", reference:"2.84-0.2+deb8u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"transmission", reference:"2.92-2+deb9u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"transmission-cli", reference:"2.92-2+deb9u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"transmission-common", reference:"2.92-2+deb9u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"transmission-daemon", reference:"2.92-2+deb9u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"transmission-gtk", reference:"2.92-2+deb9u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"transmission-qt", reference:"2.92-2+deb9u1")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
VendorProductVersionCPE
debiandebian_linuxtransmissionp-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:transmission
debiandebian_linux8.0cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0
debiandebian_linux9.0cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0

6.8 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

8.8 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

0.017 Low

EPSS

Percentile

87.7%