CVE-2021-2279

high

Published — · Modified —

CVSS v3

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CVSS v2

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VIR risk

8.0

Description

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). The supported version that is affected is Prior to 6.1.20. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via RDP to compromise Oracle VM VirtualBox. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of Oracle VM VirtualBox. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 8.1 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-2279

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202104-9

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
arch		fixed	`6.1.20-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`6.1.20-dfsg-1`

References

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