{"id":"CVE-2017-8314","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2017-8314","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T21:57:50.315Z","title":"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.","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.","published":"2017-05-23T21:29:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:26:10.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@checkpoint.com","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-22"],"affected":["kodi/kodi","debian/debian linux"],"epss":{"score":0.02474,"percentile":0.84454,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (2.47%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98668","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"cve@checkpoint.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/12024","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@checkpoint.com"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00019.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@checkpoint.com"},{"url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-17","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@checkpoint.com"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98668","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/12024","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00019.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-17","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-8314","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}