CVE-2023-21991

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). Supported versions that are affected are Prior to 6.1.44 and Prior to 7.0.8. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle VM VirtualBox executes to compromise Oracle VM VirtualBox. While the vulnerability is in Oracle VM VirtualBox, attacks may significantly impact additional products (scope change). Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized read access to a subset of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 3.2 (Confidentiality impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N).

CVSS v3.1

3.2 LOWCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N

EPSS

0.33% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 25th percentile

Published

2023-04-18

Updated

2024-09-16

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• winmin/awesome-vm-escape

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

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