CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-10240

Published: Aug 08, 2017 | Modified: Oct 03, 2019
CVSS 3.x
7.3
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.6 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox component of Oracle Virtualization (subcomponent: Core). The supported version that is affected is Prior to 5.1.24. 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. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of Oracle VM VirtualBox as well as unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data and unauthorized read access to a subset of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 7.3 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:H).

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Vm_virtualbox Oracle * 5.1.22 (including)
Virtualbox Ubuntu artful *
Virtualbox Ubuntu trusty *
Virtualbox Ubuntu upstream *
Virtualbox Ubuntu yakkety *
Virtualbox Ubuntu zesty *

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