[NEW] [medium] nmap: Vulnerability allows denial of service
A remote, anonymous attacker can exploit a vulnerability in nmap to conduct a denial of service attack.
CSIRTS triage
- What
- A vulnerability allows a remote, anonymous attacker to conduct a denial of service attack.
- Who is affected
- Deployments of nmap.
- Urgency
- Remediation is medium urgency as exploitation is possible but not currently being actively exploited.
- Action
- Update to the latest version of nmap.
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Details
Original advisory: https://wid.cert-bund.de/portal/wid/securityadvisory?name=WID-SEC-2026-2583
Recent advisories for nmap
A cluster of recent advisories against the same product widens the attack surface — attackers routinely chain freshly published CVEs on one product, so review these together.
- medium[UPDATE] [medium] nmap: Vulnerability allows denial of servicecert-bund · 2026-07-29
- mediumCVE-2026-58058: Nmap through 7.99 does not keep the IPv6 extension-header walk within the captured packet in i…nvd · 2026-06-28
- mediumCVE-2026-58058: Nmap - Integer Underflow in IPv6 Extension Header Parsingmsrc · 2026-06-09
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