CVE-2018-0516 — Untrusted search path vulnerability in FLET'S v4 / v6 address selection tool all

Untrusted search path vulnerability in FLET'S v4 / v6 address selection tool allows an attacker to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in an unspecified directory.

01What is this vulnerability?

Untrusted search path vulnerability in FLET'S v4 / v6 address selection tool allows an attacker to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in an unspecified directory.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE WEST CORPORATION	FLET'S v4 / v6 address selection tool	all versions

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

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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: 2018-02-16T17:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T03:28:11.195Z

09References

• jvn.jp — https://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN87403477/index.html
• flets-w.com — http://flets-w.com/topics/2018/20180207a.html