Improper Input Validation Affecting qemu-project/qemu package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (16th 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?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

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 Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1