CVE-2018-16872

Published Dec 13, 2018

Last updated 2 years ago

Overview

Description
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.
Source
secalert@redhat.com
NVD status
Analyzed

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Primary
Base score
5.3
Impact score
3.6
Exploitability score
1.6
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Severity
MEDIUM

CVSS 3.0

Type
Secondary
Base score
5
Impact score
3.7
Exploitability score
0.8
Vector string
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
Severity
MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
3.5
Impact score
2.9
Exploitability score
6.8
Vector string
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses

secalert@redhat.com
CWE-367
nvd@nist.gov
CWE-367

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