CVE-2017-3332

high

Published 2017-01-27 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

8.4

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.4

Description

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox component of Oracle Virtualization (subcomponent: VirtualBox SVGA Emulation). Supported versions that are affected are VirtualBox prior to 5.0.32 and prior to 5.1.14. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle VM VirtualBox executes to compromise Oracle VM VirtualBox. While the vulnerability is in Oracle VM VirtualBox, attacks may significantly impact additional products. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized creation, deletion or modification access to critical data or all Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data and unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of Oracle VM VirtualBox. CVSS v3.0 Base Score 8.4 (Integrity and Availability impacts).

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

80%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	sid	fixed	`5.1.14-dfsg-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
oracle	vm_virtualbox	`5.0.30`
oracle	vm_virtualbox	`5.1.12`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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