CVE-2018-1000161

nmap: directory traversal in the way the non-default http-fetch script sanitized URLs

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.5

CVSS 3.0

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Published · March 20, 2018

Updated · November 22, 2025

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.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 5.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

CWE-22 · Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')