UBUNTU-CVE-2018-20752

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2018-20752

    Published: 4 Feb 2019Last Modified: 24 Oct 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-20752

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-20752, https://bitbucket.org/LaNMaSteR53/recon-ng/issues/285/csv-injection-vulnerability-identified-in, https://bitbucket.org/LaNMaSteR53/recon-ng/commits/41e96fd58891439974fb0c920b349f8926c71d4c#chg-modules/reporting/csv.py, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-20752

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: recon-ng

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=bionic

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    4.9.2-1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High