CVE-2018-1000161

unknown
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-1000161

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1000161.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed7.70+dfsg1-1
debian debianbullseyefixed7.70+dfsg1-1
debian debianforkyfixed7.70+dfsg1-1
debian debiansidfixed7.70+dfsg1-1
debian debiantrixiefixed7.70+dfsg1-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.