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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2018-11652

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.

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31 Oct 2026, 10:02 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2018-11652

core-osv · Original source

Published 1 Jun 2018, 15:29 UTC

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:CVE-2018-11652
Complete source record
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      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:49:44.541744483Z",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 380753,
  "published_at": "2018-06-01T15:29:00.517+00:00"
}