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nikto — security advisory
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.
- Products
- nikto
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 2.1.6-r2
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-11652
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 22:11 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:ALPINE-CVE-2018-11652
nikto
Fixed versions: 2.1.6-r2
nikto
Fixed versions: 2.1.6-r2
nikto
Fixed versions: 2.1.6-r2
nikto
Fixed versions: 2.1.6-r2
nikto
Fixed versions: 2.1.6-r2
nikto
Fixed versions: 2.1.6-r2
nikto
Fixed versions: 2.1.6-r2
nikto
Fixed versions: 2.1.6-r2
Complete source record
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