CVE-2023-21885 (GCVE-0-2023-21885)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-01-17 23:35 – Updated: 2025-02-13 16:40
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). Supported versions that are affected are Prior to 6.1.42 and prior to 7.0.6. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low 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. Note: Applies to Windows only. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 3.8 (Confidentiality impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N).
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
- Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low 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.
Assigner
References
2 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2023.html | vendor-advisory |
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-07 |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oracle Corporation | VM VirtualBox |
Affected:
* , < 6.1.42
(semver)
Affected: * , < 7.0.6 (semver) |
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Nomenclature
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