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CVE-2017-0359
diffoscope writes to arbitrary locations on disk based on the contents of an untrusted archive
Critical9.8EPSS 2.2%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- debian
Description
diffoscope before 77 writes to arbitrary locations on disk based on the contents of an untrusted archive.
Timeline
ID reserved
By debian
- 17 months later
· 17 months later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.2% · top 17% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Weakness
- writes to arbitrary locations
Affected products
- affected before 77
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIdiffoscopeGHSA-8p5c-f328-9fvv (opens in a new tab)
References (2)
- https://bugs.debian.org/854723 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-0359 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-8p5c-f328-9fvv (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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