Vulnerability · Published Apr 18, 2023 · Assigned by oracle

CVE-2023-21998

Medium 4.6

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 0.3% (higher than 24% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)4.6Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 76.2% 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 6.1.44 and Prior to 7.0.8. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high 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 (scope change). Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data as well as unauthorized read access to a subset of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data. Note: This vulnerability applies to Windows VMs only. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 4.6 (Confidentiality and Integrity impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N).

Affected packages & fixed versions

Ecosystem	Package	Fixed in	Advisory
Ubuntu:22.04:LTS	virtualbox	no fix listed	UBUNTU-CVE-2023-21998
Ubuntu:24.04:LTS	virtualbox	no fix listed	UBUNTU-CVE-2023-21998

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Oracle Corporation	VM VirtualBox	* – before 6.1.44* – before 7.0.8

References

Oracle Advisory vendor-advisory