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.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - 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.
    (CVE-2018-11652)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - 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.
    (CVE-2018-11652)

Security fix for CVE-2018-11652

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
250631	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2018-11652	Nessus	Misc.	critical
405774	Alpine: nikto: security update to 2.1.6-r2	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	critical
405774	Alpine: nikto: security update to 2.1.6-r2	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	critical
400193	Alpine: nikto: security update to 2.1.6-r1 (deprecated)	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	critical
400193	Alpine: nikto: security update to 2.1.6-r1 (deprecated)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	critical
120459	Fedora 28 : 1:nikto (2018-5f30937bed)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
110613	Fedora 27 : 1:nikto (2018-15bf411a32)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical

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