What is CVE-2018-0496?

CVE-2018-0496 is a high-severity vulnerability in Dinknetwork Dfarc, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2018-06-12.

How severe is CVE-2018-0496?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Path Traversal in Dinknetwork Dfarc

CVE-2018-0496

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.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

Published 2018-06-12 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.024 (83.8th percentile), scored 2026-10-04.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 84th percentile — 83.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.024 · newest: 0.024 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Dinknetwork Dfarc
Dinknetwork Dfarc2
Debian Linux — versions 8.0
Dfarc2 Before 3.14 Unknown — versions DFArc2 before 3.14 unknown

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

References

savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php (Vendor Advisory)
git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freedink/dfarc.git/commit/ (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00033.html (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-0496?: CVE-2018-0496 is a high-severity vulnerability in Dinknetwork Dfarc, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2018-06-12.
How severe is CVE-2018-0496?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.