Vulnerability · Published Jan 15, 2020 · Assigned by oracle

CVE-2020-2703

Medium 6.5

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in VM VirtualBox from Oracle Corporation. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 38% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.0)6.5Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 62.3% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). Supported versions that are affected are Prior to 5.2.36 and prior to 6.0.16. 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. 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 3.0 Base Score 6.5 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H).

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Oracle Corporation	VM VirtualBox	unspecified – before 5.2.36unspecified – before 6.0.16

References

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2020.html x_refsource_MISC
GLSA-202004-02 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO
GLSA-202101-09 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO