VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-4037

low
Published 2012-08-15 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
—
CVSS v2
2.6
VIR risk
2.6

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the web client in Transmission before 2.61 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) comment, (2) created by, or (3) name field in a torrent file.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-4037

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/4979

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://secunia.com/advisories/50027

OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed2.52-3
debian debianbullseyefixed2.52-3
debian debianforkyfixed2.52-3
debian debiansidfixed2.52-3
debian debiantrixiefixed2.52-3

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
transmissionbttransmission{"endIncluding":"2.60"}
transmissionbttransmission0.1
transmissionbttransmission0.2
transmissionbttransmission0.3
transmissionbttransmission0.4
transmissionbttransmission0.5
transmissionbttransmission0.6
transmissionbttransmission0.6.1
transmissionbttransmission0.70
transmissionbttransmission0.71
transmissionbttransmission0.72
transmissionbttransmission0.80
transmissionbttransmission0.81
transmissionbttransmission0.82
transmissionbttransmission0.90
transmissionbttransmission0.91
transmissionbttransmission0.92
transmissionbttransmission0.93
transmissionbttransmission0.94
transmissionbttransmission0.95
transmissionbttransmission0.96
transmissionbttransmission1.00
transmissionbttransmission1.01
transmissionbttransmission1.02
transmissionbttransmission1.2
transmissionbttransmission1.03
transmissionbttransmission1.04
transmissionbttransmission1.05
transmissionbttransmission1.06
transmissionbttransmission1.10
transmissionbttransmission1.11
transmissionbttransmission1.20
transmissionbttransmission1.21
transmissionbttransmission1.22
transmissionbttransmission1.30
transmissionbttransmission1.31
transmissionbttransmission1.32
transmissionbttransmission1.33
transmissionbttransmission1.34
transmissionbttransmission1.40
transmissionbttransmission1.41
transmissionbttransmission1.42
transmissionbttransmission1.50
transmissionbttransmission1.51
transmissionbttransmission1.52
transmissionbttransmission1.53
transmissionbttransmission1.54
transmissionbttransmission1.60
transmissionbttransmission1.61
transmissionbttransmission1.70
transmissionbttransmission1.71
transmissionbttransmission1.72
transmissionbttransmission1.73
transmissionbttransmission1.74
transmissionbttransmission1.75
transmissionbttransmission1.76
transmissionbttransmission1.77
transmissionbttransmission1.80
transmissionbttransmission1.81
transmissionbttransmission1.82
transmissionbttransmission1.83
transmissionbttransmission1.90
transmissionbttransmission1.91
transmissionbttransmission1.92
transmissionbttransmission1.93
transmissionbttransmission2.00
transmissionbttransmission2.01
transmissionbttransmission2.02
transmissionbttransmission2.03
transmissionbttransmission2.04
transmissionbttransmission2.10
transmissionbttransmission2.11
transmissionbttransmission2.12
transmissionbttransmission2.13
transmissionbttransmission2.20
transmissionbttransmission2.21
transmissionbttransmission2.22
transmissionbttransmission2.30
transmissionbttransmission2.31
transmissionbttransmission2.32
transmissionbttransmission2.33
transmissionbttransmission2.40
transmissionbttransmission2.41
transmissionbttransmission2.42
transmissionbttransmission2.50
transmissionbttransmission2.51
transmissionbttransmission2.52

References

CWEs

CWE-79

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.