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CVE-2018-16867
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-12-12T13:29:02.750 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:44:56.963

Summary

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.

Affected products

qemu — qemu

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References

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