CVE-2018-16847

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

An OOB heap buffer r/w access issue was found in the NVM Express Controller emulation in QEMU. It could occur in nvme_cmb_ops routines in nvme device. A guest user/process could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process resulting in DoS or potentially run arbitrary code with privileges of the QEMU process.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Nov 2, 2018
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2018-16847: High severity, CVSS 7.8 | Vulnix