PT-2018-9332 · Nmap · Nmap

Published 2018-04-18 · Updated 2018-05-24 · CVE-2018-1000161

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.7

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions nmap versions 6.49BETA6 through 7.60

Description The issue is related to a Directory Traversal vulnerability in the NSE script http-fetch that can result in file overwrite. This can be exploited when a victim runs the http-fetch script against a malicious web site.

Recommendations For versions 6.49BETA6 through 7.60, update to version 7.7 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Path traversal

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-22

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-1000161

Affected Products

Nmap

References · 8

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-1000161 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-1000161 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000161 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1000161 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-1000161 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-1000161 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nmap.org/changelog.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-1000161 · Vendor Advisory