CVE-2018-1000161: Nmap

Medium severity, CVSS 5.7. EPSS: 1% 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.

Affected products

• Nmap Nmap: version 6.49 only; version 7.00 only; version 7.01 only; version 7.10 only; version 7.11 only; version 7.12 only; …

Published 2018-04-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.