CVE-2016-5538

medium

Published 2016-10-25 · Modified 2026-05-06

CVSS v3

6.7

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2

7.2

VIR risk

6.7

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox component before 5.0.28 and 5.1.x before 5.1.8 in Oracle Virtualization allows local users to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via vectors related to Core, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-5501.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

66%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-5538

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert_us@oracle.com — http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2016-2881722.html

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	sid	fixed	`5.1.8-dfsg-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
oracle	vm_virtualbox	`5.0.27`
oracle	vm_virtualbox	`5.1.7`

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.