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critical 9.8

CVE-2017-0359 json

diffoscope writes to arbitrary locations on disk based on the contents of an untrusted archive

published 2018-04-13 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-8p5c-f328-9fvv , PYSEC-2018-83 , EUVD-2018-0032

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.2%
EPSS 2.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 82%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

diffoscope before 77 writes to arbitrary locations on disk based on the contents of an untrusted archive.

Patch / fix

  • pypi diffoscope 76, 77
  • reproducible_builds diffoscope 77
  • diffoscope Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 77

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-0359

  • diffoscope openSUSE Tumbleweed 183-1.2

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10717-1

  • diffoscope Arch Linux 77-1

arch linux advisories AVG-175

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-0359 updated cvss 5.1

diffoscope: writes to arbitrary locations on disk based on the contents of an untrusted archive

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.25% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 82% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • bugs.debian.org https://bugs.debian.org/854723 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
GitHub 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi diffoscope
<76
<77
76
77

Affected products

  • Debian diffoscope

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.