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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2023-22016
CVE-2023-22016:
VirtualBox vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
A vulnerability has been identified in Oracle VM VirtualBox versions prior to 6.1.46 and prior to 7.0.10. This vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-22016, affects the Core component of Oracle Virtualization (Oracle CPE).
Technical details
The vulnerability requires a high-privileged attacker with logon access to the infrastructure where Oracle VM VirtualBox executes. The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS 3.1 Base Score of 4.2 (Medium) with the following vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H (NVD).
Impact
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash, leading to a complete denial of service (DoS) of Oracle VM VirtualBox. The vulnerability only affects availability, with no impact on confidentiality or integrity (Oracle CPE).
Mitigation and workarounds
Oracle has released patches to address this vulnerability in VirtualBox versions 6.1.46 and 7.0.10. Users are strongly recommended to upgrade to these or later versions to mitigate the vulnerability (Oracle CPE).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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