CVE-2018-16872CWE-367

A flaw was found in qemu Media Transfer Protocol (MTP)

Medium · published December 13, 2018

CVSS v3.0
5.0
EPSS
1%
Percentile
64.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.0
5.0 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01075 · 64.7th percentile
Weakness
CWE-367 · Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition
Published
2018-12-13T21:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 13 DEC 21:00Z
    A flaw was found in qemu Media Transfer Protocol (MTP)
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