CVE-2022-21627

published 2022-10-18

CVE-2022-21627: Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). Supported versions that are affected are Prior to 6.1.40. Easily…

Priority P4 13 medium 4.4 CVSS 3.1

AV L AC L PR H UI N S U C N I N A H

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). Supported versions that are affected are Prior to 6.1.40. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high 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. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 4.4 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

Affected

3 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	virtualbox	< virtualbox 6.1.40-dfsg-1 (sid)	virtualbox 6.1.40-dfsg-1 (sid)
oracle	vm_virtualbox	< 6.1.40	6.1.40
oracle_corporation	vm_virtualbox	>= unspecified < 6.1.40	6.1.40

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 4.4 MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

osv 4.4 MEDIUM

vendor_debian 4.4 MEDIUM

vendor_oracle 4.4 MEDIUM

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