CVE-2017-0359
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.5
Description
diffoscope before 77 writes to arbitrary locations on disk based on the contents of an untrusted archive.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| arch | fixed | 77-1 | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 77 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 77 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 77 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 77 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 77 |
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| PyPI | diffoscope | <76 | 76 |
| PyPI | diffoscope | <77 | 77 |
References
- https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201702-14
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-0359
- https://github.com/anthraxx/diffoscope/commit/632a40828a54b399787c25e7fa243f732aef7e05
- https://github.com/anthraxx/diffoscope/commit/f379d1f611dbd5d361e12b732e07c8aee45ff226
- https://bugs.debian.org/854723
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=854723
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8p5c-f328-9fvv
- https://github.com/anthraxx/diffoscope
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/diffoscope/PYSEC-2018-83.yaml
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-0359
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.