CVE-2017-8314

Publication date 23 May 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

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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

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

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