Multiple serious vulnerabilities have been found in Oracle VM VirtualBox. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to cause a denial of service, gain priveleges, obtain sensitive information.

Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities:

1. Unspecified vulnerabilities in subcomponents: Shared Folder, VirtualBox SVGA Emulation can be exploited to gain privileges, obtain sensitive information and cause a denial of service;
2. An unspecified vulnerability in subcomponent GUI can be exploited via multiple protocols to obtain sensitive information.

Technical details

Exploiting vulnerabilities (1), (2) can also affect additional products.

Vulnerabilities (1) can be exploited by a high privileged malicious user who is logged on to the infrastructure where Oracle VM VirtualBox is executed to compromise it.

Vulnerability (2) can be exploited by a high privileged malicious user with network access.

Exploiting vulnerability (2) successfully requires user interaction (with not the same person as the unauthenticated attacker).

Oracle VM VirtualBox earlier than 5.0.32
Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.1.x earlier than 5.1.14

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