CVE-2017-1000420

Publication date 2 January 2018

Last updated 17 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

Score breakdown

Description

Syncthing version 0.14.33 and older is vulnerable to symlink traversal resulting in arbitrary file overwrite

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
syncthing	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	17.10 artful	Ignored end of life
	17.04 zesty	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.5 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	None
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	None

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

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

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