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

The remote openSUSE 16 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE- SU-2026:21189-1 advisory.

    Changes in transmission:

    - CVE-2026-38978: add clickjack safeguards when serving http responses (bsc#1267404).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.10 / 26.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-8404-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that Transmission had a clickjacking weakness in the browser-facing WebUI and RPC     response paths. An attacker could possibly use this issue to trick users into performing unintended     actions.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 43 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-893c99f61c advisory.

    4.1.2, fix for CVE-2026-38978

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 44 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-c032fac814 advisory.

    4.1.2, fix for CVE-2026-38978

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - transmission through 4.1.1 was found to have a clickjacking weakness in the browser-facing WebUI and RPC     response paths. (CVE-2026-38978)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
325042	openSUSE 16: system-user-transmission / transmission / transmission-common / etc (openSUSE-SU-2026:21189-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
320389	Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.10 / 26.04 LTS : Transmission vulnerability (USN-8404-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
318778	Fedora 43 : transmission (2026-893c99f61c)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
318759	Fedora 44 : transmission (2026-c032fac814)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
318372	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-38978	Nessus	Misc.	medium

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