CVE-2017-5982

high

Published 2017-02-28 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

7.5

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.5

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the Chorus2 2.4.2 add-on for Kodi allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a %2E%2E%252e (encoded dot dot slash) in the image path, as demonstrated by image/image%3A%2F%2F%2e%2e%252fetc%252fpasswd.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

83%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Metasploit modules

auxiliary_scanner/http/kodi_traversal rank 300

Kodi 17.0 Local File Inclusion Vulnerability

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`2:18.6+dfsg1-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`2:18.6+dfsg1-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`2:18.6+dfsg1-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`2:18.6+dfsg1-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`2:18.6+dfsg1-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
kodi	kodi	`17.1`

References

CWEs

CWE-22

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.