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.
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https://nmap.org/changelog.html Vendor Advisory
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2018-04-18T19:00:00

Updated: 2018-04-18T18:57:01

Reserved: 2018-03-27T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2018-1000161

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2018-04-18T19:29:00.503

Modified: 2018-05-24T12:08:03.423


Link: CVE-2018-1000161

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