Oracle VM VirtualBox up to 7.0.21/7.1.1 Core improper authorization

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A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in Oracle VM VirtualBox up to 7.0.21/7.1.1. Affected is an unknown function of the component Core. The manipulation leads to improper authorization. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-21263. An attack has to be approached locally. There is no exploit available. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Oracle VM VirtualBox up to 7.0.21/7.1.1 and classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown functionality of the component Core. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a improper authorization vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-285. The product does not perform or incorrectly performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). Supported versions that are affected are Prior to 7.0.22 and prior to 7.1.2. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle VM VirtualBox executes to compromise Oracle VM VirtualBox. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of Oracle VM VirtualBox and unauthorized read access to a subset of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 6.1 (Confidentiality and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H).

It is possible to read the advisory at oracle.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-21263 since 12/07/2023. The exploitation is known to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1548.002 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 209155 (Oracle VM VirtualBox (October 2024 CPU)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 7.0.22 or 7.1.2 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (209155). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Type

• Virtualization Software

Vendor

• Oracle

Name

• VM VirtualBox

Version

• 7.0.0
• 7.0.1
• 7.0.2
• 7.0.3
• 7.0.4
• 7.0.5
• 7.0.6
• 7.0.7
• 7.0.8
• 7.0.9
• 7.0.10
• 7.0.11
• 7.0.12
• 7.0.13
• 7.0.14
• 7.0.15
• 7.0.16
• 7.0.17
• 7.0.18
• 7.0.19
• 7.0.20
• 7.0.21
• 7.1.0
• 7.1.1

License

• open-source (GNU GPLv3)

Website

• Vendor: https://www.oracle.com

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