CVE-2018-1000161

5.7 mediumEPSS 1.0%

Medium (5.7) in nmap nmap. EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

5.7 medium

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

EPSS: 1.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 63% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-22
Published: 2018-04-18
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

nmap:nmap

References

https://nmap.org/changelog.html
https://nmap.org/changelog.html

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