Executive Summary
| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Title | Transmission vulnerability |
| Informations | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | USN-1584-1 | First vendor Publication | 2012-09-26 |
| Vendor | Ubuntu | Last vendor Modification | 2012-09-26 |
| Severity (Vendor) | N/A | Revision | N/A |
Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3
| Cvss vector : N/A | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall CVSS Score | NA | ||
| Base Score | NA | Environmental Score | NA |
| impact SubScore | NA | Temporal Score | NA |
| Exploitabality Sub Score | NA | ||
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2
| Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Cvss Base Score | 2.6 | Attack Range | Network |
| Cvss Impact Score | 2.9 | Attack Complexity | High |
| Cvss Expoit Score | 4.9 | Authentication | None Required |
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Detail
| A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Summary: Transmission could be made to expose sensitive information over the network. Software Description: - transmission: lightweight BitTorrent client Details: Justin C. Klein Keane discovered that the Transmission web client incorrectly escaped certain strings. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted torrent file, an attacker could possibly exploit this to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. Update instructions: The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: After a standard system update you need to restart Transmission to make all the necessary changes. References: Package Information: |
Original Source
| Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1584-1 |
CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration
| % | Id | Name |
|---|---|---|
| 100 % | CWE-79 | Failure to Preserve Web Page Structure ('Cross-site Scripting') (CWE/SANS Top 25) |
OVAL Definitions
| Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17745 | |||
| Oval ID: | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17745 | ||
| Title: | USN-1584-1 -- transmission vulnerability | ||
| Description: | Transmission could be made to expose sensitive information over the network. | ||
| Family: | unix | Class: | patch |
| Reference(s): | USN-1584-1 CVE-2012-4037 | Version: | 7 |
| Platform(s): | Ubuntu 12.04 | Product(s): | transmission |
| Definition Synopsis: | |||
CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
OpenVAS Exploits
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2012-09-27 | Name : Ubuntu Update for transmission USN-1584-1 File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_1584_1.nasl |
Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2015-01-19 | Name : The remote Solaris system is missing a security patch for third-party software. File : solaris11_transmission_20140522.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2012-09-27 | Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch. File : ubuntu_USN-1584-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
Alert History
| Date | Informations |
|---|---|
| 2014-02-17 12:00:48 |
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