CVE-2023-21898

published 2023-01-18

CVE-2023-21898: Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). Supported versions that are affected are Prior to 6.1.42 and…

Priority P4 21 medium 5.5 CVSS 3.1

AV L AC L PR L 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 6.1.42 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. 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: Applies to VirtualBox VMs running Windows 7 and later. 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).

Affected

5 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	virtualbox	< virtualbox 7.0.6-dfsg-1 (sid)	virtualbox 7.0.6-dfsg-1 (sid)
oracle	vm_virtualbox	< 6.1.42	6.1.42
oracle	vm_virtualbox	>= 7.0.0 < 7.0.6	7.0.6
oracle_corporation	vm_virtualbox	>= * < 6.1.42	6.1.42
oracle_corporation	vm_virtualbox	>= * < 7.0.6	7.0.6

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 5.5 MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

osv 5.5 MEDIUM

vendor_debian 5.5 MEDIUM

vendor_oracle 5.5 MEDIUM

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