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CVE-2020-2929 is a high-severity Oracle VM VirtualBox flaw. A low-privileged user who can log on to a host running vulnerable VirtualBox could take over VirtualBox, creating serious confidentiality, integrity, and availability risk for affected virtualization hosts. Exposure is most likely on workstations, lab systems, build hosts, or shared infrastructure running Oracle VM VirtualBox versions earlier than 5.2.40, 6.0.20, or 6.1.6, especially where non-administrative users can log in locally. Treat as high priority for shared virtualization hosts and developer infrastructure. The flaw is local, not remote, but successful exploitation can fully compromise VirtualBox and affect sensitive workloads or test environments. Mitigation focus: Upgrade VirtualBox to 5.2.40, 6.0.20, 6.1.6, or later supported fixed releases.; Apply relevant OS distribution security updates for packaged VirtualBox builds.; Review Oracle’s April 2020 Critical Patch Update guidance for affected deployments..
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- High
- CVSS
- 7.8 (3.0)
- Known Exploited
- No
- Published
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H1.85.9Primary CVE scoreVulnerability scoring details
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7.8HighVector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/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-20-508/CVE reference · x_refsource_MISC
- GLSA-202101-09CVE reference · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO
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