Multiple serious vulnerabilities have been found in Oracle VM VirtualBox. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to cause a denial of service, read and write accesible data and possibly to obtain sensitive information.

Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities:

1. Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in subcomponent Core of Oracle Virtualization component can be exploited remotely possibly to obtain sensitive information;
2. Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in subcomponent Core of Oracle Virtualization component can be exploited remotely to cause a denial of service (it can be either hang or frequently repeatable crash), write to some of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data and read a subset of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data;
3. An unspecified vulnerability in subcomponent Shared Folder of Oracle Virtualization component can be exploited remotely to cause a denial of service (it can be either hang or frequently repeatable crash);
4. An unspecified vulnerability in subcomponent Core of Oracle Virtualization component can be exploited remotely to cause a denial of service (it can be either hang or frequently repeatable crash), write to some of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data and read a subset of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data;
5. An unspecified vulnerability in subcomponent Core of Oracle Virtualization component can be exploited remotely to cause a denial of service (it can be either hang or frequently repeatable crash), write to some of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data;
6. An unspecified vulnerability in subcomponent Core of Oracle Virtualization component can be exploited remotely to read a subset of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data.

Technical details

Vulnerabilities (1)-(3) can be exploited by a low privileged user with logon to the infrastructure where OracleVM VirtualBox is executed.

Vulnerabilities (4)-(6) can be exploited by a high privileged user with logon to the infrastructure where OracleVM VirtualBox is executed.

Oracle VM VirtualBox earlier than 5.0.38
Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.1.x earlier than 5.1.20

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The following public exploits exists for this vulnerability:

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41906

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41907

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41932

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41904

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41905

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41908