Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-11652 - Improper Neutralization of Formula Elements in a CSV File vulnerability in Cirt.Net Nikto 2.1.6

047910
CVSS 9.8 - CRITICAL
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
HIGH
network
low complexity
cirt-net
CWE-1236
critical
nessus
exploit available

Summary

CSV Injection vulnerability in Nikto 2.1.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary OS commands via the Server field in an HTTP response header, which is directly injected into a CSV report.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Cirt.Net
1

Exploit-Db

descriptionNikto 2.1.6 - CSV Injection. CVE-2018-11652. Local exploit for Linux platform
fileexploits/linux/local/44899.txt
idEDB-ID:44899
last seen2018-06-18
modified2018-06-18
platformlinux
port
published2018-06-18
reporterExploit-DB
sourcehttps://www.exploit-db.com/download/44899/
titleNikto 2.1.6 - CSV Injection
typelocal

Nessus

  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2018-5F30937BED.NASL
    descriptionSecurity fix for CVE-2018-11652 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2019-01-03
    plugin id120459
    published2019-01-03
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/120459
    titleFedora 28 : 1:nikto (2018-5f30937bed)
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2018-15BF411A32.NASL
    descriptionSecurity fix for CVE-2018-11652 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2018-06-20
    plugin id110613
    published2018-06-20
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/110613
    titleFedora 27 : 1:nikto (2018-15bf411a32)

Packetstorm

data sourcehttps://packetstormsecurity.com/files/download/148227/nikto216-inject.txt
idPACKETSTORM:148227
last seen2018-06-19
published2018-06-18
reporterAdam Greenhill
sourcehttps://packetstormsecurity.com/files/148227/Nikto-2.1.6-CSV-Injection.html
titleNikto 2.1.6 CSV Injection