cve-2024-21161
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-07-16 22:40
Modified
2025-03-26 13:43
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS score ?
0.03% (0.08098)
Summary
Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). Supported versions that are affected are Prior to 7.0.20. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle VM VirtualBox executes to compromise Oracle VM VirtualBox. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of Oracle VM VirtualBox. Note: This vulnerability applies to Linux hosts only. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 5.5 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).
References
secalert_us@oracle.comhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2024.htmlVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2024.htmlVendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Oracle Corporation VM VirtualBox Version: *   < 7.0.20
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