What is CVE-2018-1000161?

CVE-2018-1000161 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Nmap, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 5.7/10. Published 2018-04-18.

How severe is CVE-2018-1000161?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.7 out of 10.

Path Traversal in Nmap

CVE-2018-1000161

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.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

EPSS: 0.010 (60.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.7 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N.

Affected products

Nmap — versions 6.49, 7.00, 7.01
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-1000161?: CVE-2018-1000161 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Nmap, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 5.7/10. Published 2018-04-18.
How severe is CVE-2018-1000161?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.7 out of 10.