Security readout for executives and security teams
CVE-2020-2908 is a high-severity VirtualBox Core issue. An attacker who already has high privileges and logon access on a system running affected VirtualBox can compromise VirtualBox. Successful exploitation can take over VirtualBox and may affect additional products. The supplied sources do not show known active exploitation. Exposure is most likely on workstations, build systems, test labs, or servers running older Oracle VM VirtualBox versions. Risk depends on whether high-privileged users can log on where VirtualBox executes. Prioritize remediation where VirtualBox runs on shared, administrative, developer, or build infrastructure. The issue needs existing high privilege, but successful exploitation can fully compromise VirtualBox and may affect dependent products. Mitigation focus: Upgrade VirtualBox to 5.2.40, 6.0.20, 6.1.6, or later supported releases.; Apply relevant openSUSE or Gentoo security updates where VirtualBox came from those packages.; Restrict high-privileged logon access on hosts running VirtualBox..
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Open ATT&CK lookup- Severity
- 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
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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-20-501/CVE reference · x_refsource_MISC
- GLSA-202101-09CVE reference · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO
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