CVE-2023-21899 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2023-21899 at MITRE

Description

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). Supported versions that are affected are Prior to 6.1.42 and prior to 7.0.6. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle VM VirtualBox executes to compromise Oracle VM VirtualBox. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of Oracle VM VirtualBox. Note: Applies to VirtualBox VMs running Windows 7 and later. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 5.5 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

Upstream Security Advisories:

https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-23-119/

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v3 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	5.5
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector	Local
Attack Complexity	Low
Privileges Required	Low
User Interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	High
CVSSv3 Version	3.1

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1207285 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

openSUSE-SU-2023:0033-1, published Sun Jan 29 10:43:02 2023

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
openSUSE Leap 15.4	`python3-virtualbox >= 7.0.6-lp154.2.26.2` `virtualbox >= 7.0.6-lp154.2.26.2` `virtualbox-devel >= 7.0.6-lp154.2.26.2` `virtualbox-guest-desktop-icons >= 7.0.6-lp154.2.26.2` `virtualbox-guest-source >= 7.0.6-lp154.2.26.2` `virtualbox-guest-tools >= 7.0.6-lp154.2.26.2` `virtualbox-host-source >= 7.0.6-lp154.2.26.2` `virtualbox-kmp-default >= 7.0.6_k5.14.21_150400.24.41-lp154.2.26.2` `virtualbox-qt >= 7.0.6-lp154.2.26.2` `virtualbox-vnc >= 7.0.6-lp154.2.26.2` `virtualbox-websrv >= 7.0.6-lp154.2.26.2`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2023-33
openSUSE Tumbleweed	`python3-virtualbox >= 7.0.6-1.1` `virtualbox >= 7.0.6-1.1` `virtualbox-devel >= 7.0.6-1.1` `virtualbox-guest-desktop-icons >= 7.0.6-1.1` `virtualbox-guest-source >= 7.0.6-1.1` `virtualbox-guest-tools >= 7.0.6-1.1` `virtualbox-host-source >= 7.0.6-1.1` `virtualbox-qt >= 7.0.6-1.1` `virtualbox-vnc >= 7.0.6-1.1` `virtualbox-websrv >= 7.0.6-1.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-12640

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Thu Jan 19 13:00:17 2023
CVE page last modified: Tue Sep 3 19:29:01 2024