CVE-2026-38978

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Published 2026-06-02 · Modified 2026-06-02

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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Description

transmission through 4.1.1 was found to have a clickjacking weakness in the browser-facing WebUI and RPC response paths.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

Mitigation details

Source: Debian Security Tracker · View original ↗ · DFSG

CVE-2026-38978 NameCVE-2026-38978 Descriptiontransmission through 4.1.1 was found to have a clickjacking weakness in the browser-facing WebUI and RPC response paths. SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) Vulnerable and fixed packages The table below lists information on…

CVE-2026-38978

Name	CVE-2026-38978
Description	transmission through 4.1.1 was found to have a clickjacking weakness in the browser-facing WebUI and RPC response paths.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
transmission (PTS)	bullseye	3.00-1	vulnerable
	bookworm	3.00-2.1+deb12u1	vulnerable
	trixie	4.1.0~beta2+dfsg-3+deb13u1	vulnerable
	forky, sid	4.1.1+dfsg-1	vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
transmission	source	(unstable)	(unfixed)

Notes

https://github.com/transmission/transmission/issues/8726
https://github.com/transmission/transmission/pull/8747
https://github.com/transmission/transmission/commit/6b24c1c214ec6a44fa5fdff0ce7da6b16d8ecaa8

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Apply commands

text fix

Notes

https://github.com/transmission/transmission/issues/8726https://github.com/transmission/transmission/pull/8747https://github.com/transmission/transmission/commit/6b24c1c214ec6a44fa5fdff0ce7da6b16d8ecaa8

OS impact

Debian Affected 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Affected	—
sid	Affected	—
forky	Affected	—
bullseye	Affected	—
bookworm	Affected	—

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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