Vulnerability · Published Jul 16, 2024 · Assigned by oracle

CVE-2024-21161

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity uncontrolled resource consumption 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 19% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.5Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 81.4% 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 7.0.20. 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: This vulnerability applies to Linux hosts only. 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 packages & fixed versions

Ecosystem	Package	Fixed in	Advisory
Ubuntu:22.04:LTS	virtualbox	no fix listed	UBUNTU-CVE-2024-21161
Ubuntu:24.04:LTS	virtualbox	no fix listed	UBUNTU-CVE-2024-21161
Ubuntu:25.10	virtualbox	no fix listed	UBUNTU-CVE-2024-21161
Ubuntu:26.04:LTS	virtualbox	no fix listed	UBUNTU-CVE-2024-21161
Ubuntu:26.10	virtualbox	no fix listed	UBUNTU-CVE-2024-21161

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Oracle Corporation	VM VirtualBox	* – before 7.0.20

Weakness: CWE-400 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Oracle Advisory vendor-advisory