CVE-2018-1000161

Publication date 18 April 2018

Last updated 26 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
nmap	25.10 questing	Not affected
	25.04 plucky	Not affected
	24.10 oracular	Not affected
	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Not affected
	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.10 kinetic	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	21.10 impish	Not affected
	21.04 hirsute	Ignored end of life
	20.10 groovy	Ignored end of life
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	19.10 eoan	Ignored end of life
	19.04 disco	Not affected
	18.10 cosmic	Ignored end of life
	18.04 LTS bionic	Vulnerable
	17.10 artful	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Vulnerable
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
nmap	Upstream: 098e327 Upstream: da0c861 Upstream: 88631b5 Upstream: 80e1977

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.7 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

References

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-1000161