CVE-2021-2279

Upstream information

CVE-2021-2279 at MITRE

Description

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). The supported version that is affected is Prior to 6.1.20. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via RDP to compromise Oracle VM VirtualBox. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of Oracle VM VirtualBox. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 8.1 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

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Upstream Security Advisories:

• https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-484/
• https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-453/
• https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-455/
• https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-456/
• https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-457/
• https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-459/
• https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-461/
• https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-462/

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	6.8
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Medium
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

CVSS v3 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	8.1
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector	Network
Attack Complexity	High
Privileges Required	None
User Interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact	High
Integrity Impact	High
Availability Impact	High
CVSSv3 Version	3.1

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1185211 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

• openSUSE-SU-2021:0723-1, published Fri May 14 21:38:43 2021
• openSUSE-SU-2021:0977-1, published Mon Jul 12 15:44:30 2021

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
openSUSE Leap 15.2	python3-virtualbox >= 6.1.22-lp152.2.24.2 virtualbox >= 6.1.22-lp152.2.24.2 virtualbox-devel >= 6.1.22-lp152.2.24.2 virtualbox-guest-desktop-icons >= 6.1.22-lp152.2.24.2 virtualbox-guest-source >= 6.1.22-lp152.2.24.2 virtualbox-guest-tools >= 6.1.22-lp152.2.24.2 virtualbox-guest-x11 >= 6.1.22-lp152.2.24.2 virtualbox-host-source >= 6.1.22-lp152.2.24.2 virtualbox-kmp-default >= 6.1.22_k5.3.18_lp152.75-lp152.2.24.2 virtualbox-kmp-preempt >= 6.1.22_k5.3.18_lp152.75-lp152.2.24.2 virtualbox-qt >= 6.1.22-lp152.2.24.2 virtualbox-vnc >= 6.1.22-lp152.2.24.2 virtualbox-websrv >= 6.1.22-lp152.2.24.2	Patchnames: openSUSE-2021-723
openSUSE Leap 15.3	python3-virtualbox >= 6.1.22-lp153.2.3.2 virtualbox >= 6.1.22-lp153.2.3.2 virtualbox-devel >= 6.1.22-lp153.2.3.2 virtualbox-guest-desktop-icons >= 6.1.22-lp153.2.3.2 virtualbox-guest-source >= 6.1.22-lp153.2.3.2 virtualbox-guest-tools >= 6.1.22-lp153.2.3.2 virtualbox-guest-x11 >= 6.1.22-lp153.2.3.2 virtualbox-host-source >= 6.1.22-lp153.2.3.2 virtualbox-kmp-default >= 6.1.22_k5.3.18_59.5-lp153.2.3.2 virtualbox-kmp-preempt >= 6.1.22_k5.3.18_59.5-lp153.2.3.2 virtualbox-qt >= 6.1.22-lp153.2.3.2 virtualbox-vnc >= 6.1.22-lp153.2.3.2 virtualbox-websrv >= 6.1.22-lp153.2.3.2	Patchnames: openSUSE-2021-977
openSUSE Leap 15.4	virtualbox-guest-tools >= 6.1.32-lp154.1.83 virtualbox-guest-x11 >= 6.1.32-lp154.1.83 virtualbox-kmp-default >= 6.1.32_k5.14.21_150400.22-lp154.1.67	Patchnames: openSUSE Leap 15.4 GA virtualbox-guest-tools-6.1.32-lp154.1.83

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Apr 23 08:43:31 2021
CVE page last modified: Sun Jun 16 01:21:59 2024