Fyodor Nmap up to 7.60 http-fetch path traversal

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A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Fyodor Nmap up to 7.60. Impacted is an unknown function of the component http-fetch. The manipulation leads to path traversal. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2018-1000161. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Fyodor Nmap up to 7.60 (Security Testing Software). This issue affects an unknown code of the component http-fetch. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. Impacted is integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

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.

The bug was discovered 03/20/2018. The weakness was released 04/18/2018 (Website). The advisory is shared at nmap.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2018-1000161 since 04/18/2018. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 01/27/2020). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1006 for this issue.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 29 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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Type

• Security Testing Software

Vendor

• Fyodor

Name

• Nmap

Version

• 5.00
• 5.10BETA1
• 5.10BETA2
• 5.20
• 5.21
• 5.30BETA1
• 5.35DC1
• 5.50
• 5.51
• 5.59BETA1
• 5.61TEST1
• 5.61TEST2
• 5.61TEST4
• 5.61TEST5
• 6.00
• 6.01
• 6.20BETA1
• 6.25
• 6.40
• 6.45
• 6.46
• 6.47
• 6.49BETA1
• 6.49BETA2
• 6.49BETA3
• 6.49BETA4
• 6.49BETA5
• 6.49BETA6
• 7.00
• 7.01
• 7.10
• 7.11
• 7.12
• 7.25BETA1
• 7.25BETA2
• 7.30
• 7.31
• 7.40
• 7.50
• 7.60

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