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CVE-2020-2905:
VirtualBox vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
CVE-2020-2905 is a security vulnerability affecting Oracle VM VirtualBox. The vulnerability was discovered by Xingwei Lin and Xinlei Ying of Ant-financial Light-Year Security Lab and was disclosed in Oracle's April 2020 Critical Patch Update (Oracle CPU). The vulnerability affects VirtualBox versions prior to 5.2.40, prior to 6.0.20, and prior to 6.1.6.
Technical details
This is an easily exploitable vulnerability that allows high-privileged attackers with logon access to the infrastructure where Oracle VM VirtualBox executes to compromise the system (NVD). The vulnerability was addressed as part of a larger security update that included multiple other VirtualBox vulnerabilities (OpenSUSE).
Impact
The vulnerability could potentially allow an attacker to compromise Oracle VM VirtualBox, leading to unauthorized access to the virtualization infrastructure (Oracle CPU).
Mitigation and workarounds
Oracle released patches to address this vulnerability in VirtualBox versions 5.2.40, 6.0.20, and 6.1.6. Users are recommended to upgrade to these or later versions to mitigate the vulnerability (Oracle CPU).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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