THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2018-20752
CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2018-20752

Recon Ng vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
3.4%
EPSS pct
88th
Exploited
No known
An issue was discovered in Recon-ng before 4.9.5. Lack of validation in the modules/reporting/csv.py file allows CSV injection. More specifically, when a Twitter user possesses an Excel macro for a username, it will not be properly sanitized when exported to a CSV file. This can result in remote code execution for the attacker.
Affected vendor
Recon Ng Project
Affected product
Recon Ng
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-1236 — Improper Neutralization of Formula Elements in a CSV File
Published
2019-02-04

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.4% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 88% of all scored CVEs.

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  • Confirm whether Recon Ng Project Recon Ng is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
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