VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-3538

high
Published 2017-04-24 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox component of Oracle Virtualization (subcomponent: Shared Folder). Supported versions that are affected are Prior to 5.0.34 and Prior to 5.1.16. Difficult to exploit 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 as well as unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 7.5 (Confidentiality and Integrity impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N).

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
73%
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
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debiansidfixed5.1.16-dfsg-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
oracle oraclevm_virtualbox{"endIncluding":"5.0.32"}
oracle oraclevm_virtualbox5.1.0
oracle oraclevm_virtualbox5.1.2
oracle oraclevm_virtualbox5.1.4
oracle oraclevm_virtualbox5.1.6
oracle oraclevm_virtualbox5.1.8
oracle oraclevm_virtualbox5.1.10
oracle oraclevm_virtualbox5.1.12
oracle oraclevm_virtualbox5.1.14

References

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

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