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CVE-2018-11652 in the critical feed json

CSV Injection vulnerability in Nikto 2.1.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary OS commands via the Server field in an H…

published 2018-06-01 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-3672

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
23.6%
EPSS 23.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

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.

Patch / fix

  • nikto Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1:2.1.5-3

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2018-11652

  • nikto Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +11 more 2.1.6-r2

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2018-11652

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2018-11652 updated cvss 8.1

nikto: CSV injection via the Server field in an HTTP response header

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-44899)

Exploit prediction

23.64% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-44899 Nikto 2.1.6 - CSV Injection local, 2018-06-18

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-1236 Improper Neutralization of Formula Elements in a CSV File

References

Sources

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