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CVE-2017-8314

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-05-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

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.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 7.0
• Kodi: through 17.1

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98668
• https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/12024
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00019.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-17
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98668
• https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/12024
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00019.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-17

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