Security readout for executives and security teams
CVE-2020-2742 is a high-severity Oracle VM VirtualBox Core vulnerability. It requires a high-privileged attacker with local logon to the infrastructure running VirtualBox, but successful exploitation can take over VirtualBox and affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Exposure is most likely on workstations, lab hosts, CI systems, or servers running older Oracle VM VirtualBox builds, especially where privileged host access is shared or weakly controlled. Treat as high priority where VirtualBox runs on shared or operationally important infrastructure. It is less urgent than remotely exploitable flaws, but impact is severe after privileged local access. Mitigation focus: Upgrade VirtualBox to 5.2.36, 6.0.16, 6.1.2, or later supported releases.; Review Oracle CPU April 2020 guidance for applicable platform-specific updates.; Apply relevant distro security updates from openSUSE or Gentoo where VirtualBox is packaged there..
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- High
- CVSS
- 8.2 (3.0)
- Known Exploited
- No
- Published
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
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CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H1.56Primary CVE scoreVulnerability scoring details
Base CVSS 3.0 score
8.2HighVector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.htmlCVE reference · x_refsource_MISC
- https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-499/CVE reference · x_refsource_MISC
- GLSA-202101-09CVE reference · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO
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