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CVE-2017-8314

Status: ModifiedMedium (5.5)—
Severity5.5Medium · CVSS 3.0
Exploitation probability2.47 %higher than 84% of CVEs
Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog
Public exploitNot knownno public code found

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.

CVSS

Base score
5.5
Version
3.0
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
2.47 %
Percentile among all scored CVEs
84
Score date
10/23/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Affected technologies (2)

Debian — Debian LinuxKodi — Kodi

CWEs

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