{"id":"CVE-2018-1000161","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2018-1000161","generatedAt":"2026-10-29T02:04:45.955Z","title":"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.","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.","published":"2018-04-18T19:29:01.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:32:34.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":5.7,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-22"],"affected":["nmap/nmap"],"epss":{"score":0.01026,"percentile":0.63427,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.03%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://nmap.org/changelog.html","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://nmap.org/changelog.html","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000161","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}