CVE-2018-0496 — Directory traversal issues in the D-Mod extractor in DFArc and DFArc2 (as well a

Directory traversal issues in the D-Mod extractor in DFArc and DFArc2 (as well as in RTsoft's Dink Smallwood HD / ProtonSDK version) before 3.14 allow an attacker to overwrite arbitrary files on the user's system.

01What is this vulnerability?

Directory traversal issues in the D-Mod extractor in DFArc and DFArc2 (as well as in RTsoft's Dink Smallwood HD / ProtonSDK version) before 3.14 allow an attacker to overwrite arbitrary files on the user's system.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / DFArc2 before 3.14 unknown	DFArc2 before 3.14 unknown

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

Ask SARA in chat to draft a starting detection for this CVE in your stack of choice.

07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2018-06-12T20:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T03:28:10.955Z

09References

• savannah.gnu.org — https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=9169
• git.savannah.gnu.org — https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freedink/dfarc.git/commit/?id=40cc957f52e772f4…
• lists.debian.org — https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00033.html