CVE-2018-1000161 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2018-1000161

nmap version 6.49BETA6 through 7.60, up to and including SVN...

Vulnerability Description

nmap version 6.49BETA6 through 7.60, up to and including SVN revision 37147 contains a Directory Traversal vulnerability in NSE script http-fetch that can result in file overwrite as the user is running it. This attack appears to be exploitable via a victim that runs NSE script http-fetch against a malicious web site. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 7.7.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

nmap
Vulnerable Versions:
6.49, 7.00, 7.01, 7.10, 7.11, 7.12, 7.25, 7.30, 7.31, 7.40, 7.50, 7.60

Timeline

Official Publish: April 18th, 2018
Last Modified: August 5th, 2024
Added to House: July 20th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.