Improper Input Validation Affecting qemu-project/qemu package, versions [,9.1.0-rc0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.34% (27th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-QEMUPROJECTQEMU-7424604
  • published5 Jul 2024
  • disclosed2 Jul 2024
  • creditMartin Kaesberger

Introduced: 2 Jul 2024

CVE-2024-4467  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade qemu-project/qemu to version 9.1.0-rc0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation by not sufficiently checking backing file filenames for image files when using the qemu-img info command. An attacker can cause excessive resource consumption or even file reads or writes by passing in a malicious json:{} object.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1