Medium
Security advisory
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.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-8314
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- 31 Oct 2026, 10:03 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2017-8314
Complete source record
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