CVEvulnerability

CVE-2010-0012

8.8 HIGH Published 2010-01-08 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2010-01-08
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in libtransmission/metainfo.c in Transmission 1.22, 1.34, 1.75, and 1.76 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a pathname within a .torrent file.

Affected configurations

• transmissionbt transmission 1.22 • transmissionbt transmission 1.34 • transmissionbt transmission 1.75 • transmissionbt transmission 1.76 • debian debian linux 5.0 • opensuse opensuse 11.0 • opensuse opensuse 11.1 • opensuse opensuse 11.2

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness

References