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…

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

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.42% · top 63% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.0.

Weakness

• CWE-362 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-362 and its CVEs

Affected products

• [UNKNOWN] · QEMU:

  • affected 3.1.0

References (5)

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16867 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 106195 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20181206 CVE-2018-16867 QEMU: dev-mtp: path traversal in usb_mtp_write_data of the Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• FEDORA-2019-88a98ce795 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• USN-3923-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 5 Aug 2024, 10:32 UTC.