VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-5330

high
Published 2017-03-27 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
7.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
—
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.8

Description

ark before 16.12.1 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an executable in an archive, related to associated applications.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
—

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.

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OS impact
fedora Fedora Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
25 Affected —
suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Affected —
arch Arch Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Fixed 16.12.1-1
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 4:16.08.3-2
sid Fixed 4:16.08.3-2
forky Fixed 4:16.08.3-2
bullseye Fixed 4:16.08.3-2
bookworm Fixed 4:16.08.3-2

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
kdeark{"endIncluding":"16.12"}

References

CWEs

CWE-78

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

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