Oracle VM VirtualBox up to 5.2.31/prior to 6.0.9 OpenSSL cryptographic issue

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Oracle VM VirtualBox up to 5.2.31/prior to 6.0.9. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component OpenSSL. Executing a manipulation can lead to cryptographic issue. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2019-1543. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability has been found in Oracle VM VirtualBox up to 5.2.31/prior to 6.0.9 (Virtualization Software) and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects some unknown processing of the component OpenSSL. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cryptographic issue vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-310. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, and integrity.

The bug was discovered 03/06/2019. The weakness was disclosed 07/16/2019 as Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - Juli 2019 as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is shared for download at oracle.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2019-1543 since 11/28/2018. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1600.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 132 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 211827 (Oracle Linux 9 : edk2 (ELSA-2024-12842)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 172247 (OpenSUSE Security Update for openssl-1_1 (openSUSE-SU-2019:1147-1)).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (211827). The entries VDB-131391, VDB-137972, VDB-137963 and VDB-137964 are pretty similar. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Type

• Virtualization Software

Vendor

• Oracle

Name

• VM VirtualBox

Version

• 5.2.0
• 5.2.1
• 5.2.2
• 5.2.3
• 5.2.4
• 5.2.5
• 5.2.6
• 5.2.7
• 5.2.8
• 5.2.9
• 5.2.10
• 5.2.11
• 5.2.12
• 5.2.13
• 5.2.14
• 5.2.15
• 5.2.16
• 5.2.17
• 5.2.18
• 5.2.19
• 5.2.20
• 5.2.21
• 5.2.22
• 5.2.23
• 5.2.24
• 5.2.25
• 5.2.26
• 5.2.27
• 5.2.28
• 5.2.29
• 5.2.30
• 5.2.31
• prior to 6.0.0
• prior to 6.0.1
• prior to 6.0.2
• prior to 6.0.3
• prior to 6.0.4
• prior to 6.0.5
• prior to 6.0.6
• prior to 6.0.7
• prior to 6.0.8
• prior to 6.0.9

License

• open-source (GNU GPLv3)

Website

• Vendor: https://www.oracle.com

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