Potential CVE due to malicious UUID conflict?

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I was recently informed on #btrfs that simply attaching a device with the same UUID as an active BTRFS filesystem to a system would cause silent corruption of the active disk.

Two questions, since this seems like a fairly serious and potentially CVE-worthy bug (trivial case would seem to be a USB thumbdrive with a purposeful UUID collision used to quietly corrupt data on a system that is otherwise secured):

1.) Is this information correct?
2.) Does https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/2/10/23 offer sufficient protection against a malicious device being attached iff the malicious device is never mounted?

Thank you!



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