Vulnerabilities > CVE-2010-0012 - Path Traversal vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 8.8 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
HIGH
network
low complexity
transmissionbt
debian
opensuse
CWE-22
nessus

Summary

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.

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Relative Path Traversal
    An attacker exploits a weakness in input validation on the target by supplying a specially constructed path utilizing dot and slash characters for the purpose of obtaining access to arbitrary files or resources. An attacker modifies a known path on the target in order to reach material that is not available through intended channels. These attacks normally involve adding additional path separators (/ or \) and/or dots (.), or encodings thereof, in various combinations in order to reach parent directories or entirely separate trees of the target's directory structure.
  • Directory Traversal
    An attacker with access to file system resources, either directly or via application logic, will use various file path specification or navigation mechanisms such as ".." in path strings and absolute paths to extend their range of access to inappropriate areas of the file system. The attacker attempts to either explore the file system for recon purposes or access directories and files that are intended to be restricted from their access. Exploring the file system can be achieved through constructing paths presented to directory listing programs, such as "ls" and 'dir', or through specially crafted programs that attempt to explore the file system. The attacker engaging in this type of activity is searching for information that can be used later in a more exploitive attack. Access to restricted directories or files can be achieved through modification of path references utilized by system applications.
  • File System Function Injection, Content Based
    An attack of this type exploits the host's trust in executing remote content including binary files. The files are poisoned with a malicious payload (targeting the file systems accessible by the target software) by the attacker and may be passed through standard channels such as via email, and standard web content like PDF and multimedia files. The attacker exploits known vulnerabilities or handling routines in the target processes. Vulnerabilities of this type have been found in a wide variety of commercial applications from Microsoft Office to Adobe Acrobat and Apple Safari web browser. When the attacker knows the standard handling routines and can identify vulnerabilities and entry points they can be exploited by otherwise seemingly normal content. Once the attack is executed, the attackers' program can access relative directories such as C:\Program Files or other standard system directories to launch further attacks. In a worst case scenario, these programs are combined with other propagation logic and work as a virus.
  • Using Slashes and URL Encoding Combined to Bypass Validation Logic
    This attack targets the encoding of the URL combined with the encoding of the slash characters. An attacker can take advantage of the multiple way of encoding an URL and abuse the interpretation of the URL. An URL may contain special character that need special syntax handling in order to be interpreted. Special characters are represented using a percentage character followed by two digits representing the octet code of the original character (%HEX-CODE). For instance US-ASCII space character would be represented with %20. This is often referred as escaped ending or percent-encoding. Since the server decodes the URL from the requests, it may restrict the access to some URL paths by validating and filtering out the URL requests it received. An attacker will try to craft an URL with a sequence of special characters which once interpreted by the server will be equivalent to a forbidden URL. It can be difficult to protect against this attack since the URL can contain other format of encoding such as UTF-8 encoding, Unicode-encoding, etc.
  • Manipulating Input to File System Calls
    An attacker manipulates inputs to the target software which the target software passes to file system calls in the OS. The goal is to gain access to, and perhaps modify, areas of the file system that the target software did not intend to be accessible.

Nessus

  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idSUSE_11_1_TRANSMISSION-100111.NASL
    descriptionSpecially crafted torrent files could overwrite arbitrary files.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id44113
    published2010-01-22
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2010-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/44113
    titleopenSUSE Security Update : transmission (transmission-1777)
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idSUSE_11_0_TRANSMISSION-100111.NASL
    descriptionSpecially crafted torrent files could overwrite arbitrary files.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id44112
    published2010-01-22
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2010-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/44112
    titleopenSUSE Security Update : transmission (transmission-1777)
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idSUSE_11_2_TRANSMISSION-100111.NASL
    descriptionSpecially crafted torrent files could overwrite arbitrary files.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id44114
    published2010-01-22
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2010-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/44114
    titleopenSUSE Security Update : transmission (transmission-1777)
  • NASL familyUbuntu Local Security Checks
    NASL idUBUNTU_USN-885-1.NASL
    descriptionIt was discovered that the Transmission web interface was vulnerable to cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted web page in a browser while Transmission was running, an attacker could trigger commands in Transmission. This issue affected Ubuntu 9.04. (CVE-2009-1757) Dan Rosenberg discovered that Transmission did not properly perform input validation when processing torrent files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted torrent file, an attacker could overwrite files via directory traversal. (CVE-2010-0012). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id44039
    published2010-01-15
    reporterUbuntu Security Notice (C) 2010-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2010-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/44039
    titleUbuntu 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 / 9.10 : transmission vulnerabilities (USN-885-1)
  • NASL familyDebian Local Security Checks
    NASL idDEBIAN_DSA-1967.NASL
    descriptionDan Rosenberg discovered that Transmission, a lightwight client for the Bittorrent filesharing protocol, performs insufficient sanitising of file names specified in .torrent files. This could lead to the overwrite of local files with the privileges of the user running Transmission if the user is tricked into opening a malicious torrent file.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id44832
    published2010-02-24
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2010-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/44832
    titleDebian DSA-1967-1 : transmission - directory traversal
  • NASL familyMandriva Local Security Checks
    NASL idMANDRIVA_MDVSA-2010-013.NASL
    descriptionMultiple vulnerabilities has been found and corrected in transmission : Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Transmission 1.5 before 1.53 and 1.6 before 1.61 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of unspecified victims via unknown vectors (CVE-2009-1757). 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 (CVE-2010-0012). The updated packages have been patched to correct these issues.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id48167
    published2010-07-30
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2010-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/48167
    titleMandriva Linux Security Advisory : transmission (MDVSA-2010:013)
  • NASL familyMandriva Local Security Checks
    NASL idMANDRIVA_MDVSA-2010-014.NASL
    descriptionA vulnerability has been found and corrected in transmission : 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 (CVE-2010-0012). The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id48168
    published2010-07-30
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2010-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/48168
    titleMandriva Linux Security Advisory : transmission (MDVSA-2010:014)

Seebug

bulletinFamilyexploit
descriptionBugraq ID: 37659 CVE ID:CVE-2010-0012 Transmission是一款*nix下的BT下载软件。 Transmission在保存文件前应用程序不正确过滤"name"关键词,攻击者构建一个在"name"关键词中包含"../"目录遍历序列的.torrent文件,诱使用户打开,可覆盖本地系统中的任意文件。 Transmission Project Transmission 1.76 Transmission Project Transmission 1.50 Transmission Project Transmission 1.41 Transmission 1.77已经修复此漏洞,建议用户下载使用: http://www.transmissionbt.com/
idSSV:18930
last seen2017-11-19
modified2010-01-12
published2010-01-12
reporterRoot
sourcehttps://www.seebug.org/vuldb/ssvid-18930
titleTransmission任意文件覆盖漏洞