PT-2017-18279 · Xbmc Foundation+1 · Kodi+1

Rechi · Published 2017-05-23 · Updated 2019-10-03 · CVE-2017-8314

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Kodi versions 17.1 and earlier

Description The issue allows for arbitrary file write on disk via a Zip file used as subtitles, due to a Directory Traversal vulnerability in the Zip Extraction built-in function.

Recommendations For Kodi versions 17.1 and earlier, update to a version that contains a fix for this issue, as using the built-in Zip Extraction function with subtitles from untrusted sources can lead to arbitrary file writes on disk.

Fix

Path traversal

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-22

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-1659

CVE-2017-8314

DLA-1243-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Kodi

References · 20

• https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/12024 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-8314 · Security Note
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-17 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5982 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-8314 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-8314 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-8314 · Vendor Advisory
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2017-1659 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-8314 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-8314 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-8314 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-8314 · Security Note
• https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/auxiliary/scanner/http/kodi_traversal.rb · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-8314 · Note
• https://packages.altlinux.org/ru/vuln/CVE-2017-8314 · Note