CVE-2021-2279: Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). The supported version that is affected is Prior to 6.1.20…

PriorityP351high8.1CVSS 3.1

AVNACHPRNUINSUCHIHAH

EPSS

3.31%

87.2th percentile

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). The supported version that is affected is Prior to 6.1.20. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via RDP to compromise Oracle VM VirtualBox. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of Oracle VM VirtualBox. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 8.1 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

Affected

3 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	virtualbox	< virtualbox 6.1.20-dfsg-1 (sid)	virtualbox 6.1.20-dfsg-1 (sid)
oracle	vm_virtualbox	< 6.1.20	6.1.20
oracle_corporation	vm_virtualbox	>= unspecified < 6.1.20	6.1.20

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.18.1HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.06.8MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

osv8.1HIGH

vendor_debian8.1HIGH

vendor_oracle8.1HIGH

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