CVE-2017-8314

Publication date 23 May 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

Score breakdown

Description

Directory Traversal in Zip Extraction built-in function in Kodi 17.1 and earlier allows arbitrary file write on disk via a Zip file as subtitles.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
kodi	17.04 zesty	Fixed 2:17.1+dfsg1-1ubuntu0.1
	16.10 yakkety	Fixed 16.1+dfsg1-2ubuntu0.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 15.2+dfsg1-3ubuntu1.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 5.5 · Medium

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	None
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	None

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.5 · Medium
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

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