CVE-2010-0748

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2019-10-30 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

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.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0, 10.0
Transmissionbt Transmission: before 1.92 — fixed in 1.92

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Transmissionbt Transmission 1.92. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2010-0748
https://github.com/transmission/transmission/wiki/Release-Notes#transmission-192-20100314
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-0748
https://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/2965
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/04/01/9
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2010-0748
https://github.com/transmission/transmission/wiki/Release-Notes#transmission-192-20100314
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-0748
https://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/2965
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/04/01/9

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