CVE-2018-16872 MEDIUM

CVE-2018-16872

Vendor [Unknown]
Product QEMU:
Weakness CWE-367
Published December 13, 2018
Last update August 5, 2024

CVSS base score

5.0/10
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity High
Privileges required High
User interaction None
Confidentiality Low
Integrity Low

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

A flaw was found in qemu Media Transfer Protocol (MTP). The code opening files in usb_mtp_get_object and usb_mtp_get_partial_object and directories in usb_mtp_object_readdir doesn't consider that the underlying filesystem may have changed since the time lstat(2) was called in usb_mtp_object_alloc, a classical TOCTTOU problem. An attacker with write access to the host filesystem shared with a guest can use this property to navigate the host filesystem in the context of the QEMU process and read any file the QEMU process has access to. Access to the filesystem may be local or via a network share protocol such as CIFS.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

December 13, 2018 CVE published
August 5, 2024 Record updated