CVE-2018-16867

State: Published
Severity: 7.0 High
Published: Dec 12, 2018
Updated: Aug 5, 2024
Reserved: Sep 11, 2018

Description

A flaw was found in qemu Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) before version 3.1.0. A path traversal in the in usb_mtp_write_data function in hw/usb/dev-mtp.c due to an improper filename sanitization. When the guest device is mounted in read-write mode, this allows to read/write arbitrary files which may lead do DoS scenario OR possibly lead to code execution on the host.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.0	7.0 High	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:H	redhat

Weaknesses

CWE-362

Affected Products

Product	Versions
QEMU:[UNKNOWN]	3.1.0Affected

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16867
106195vdb-entry
[oss-security] 20181206 CVE-2018-16867 QEMU: dev-mtp: path traversal in usb_mtp_write_data of the Media Transfer Protocol (MTP)mailing-list
FEDORA-2019-88a98ce795vendor-advisory
USN-3923-1vendor-advisory

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