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CVE-2016-5545

Published: 27 January 2017

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox component of Oracle Virtualization (subcomponent: GUI). Supported versions that are affected are VirtualBox prior to 5.0.32 and prior to 5.1.14. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle VM VirtualBox. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data as well as unauthorized read access to a subset of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data and unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of Oracle VM VirtualBox. CVSS v3.0 Base Score 6.3 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts).

Notes

AuthorNote
sbeattie
requires user interaction

Priority

Low

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.3

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
virtualbox
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
artful Not vulnerable
(5.1.14-dfsg-1)
bionic Not vulnerable
(5.1.14-dfsg-1)
cosmic Not vulnerable
(5.1.14-dfsg-1)
disco Not vulnerable
(5.1.14-dfsg-1)
precise Ignored
(end of life)
trusty Does not exist
(trusty was needed)
upstream
Released (5.1.14-dfsg-1)
xenial Not vulnerable
(5.1.14-dfsg-1)
yakkety Ignored
(end of life)
zesty Not vulnerable
(5.1.14-dfsg-1)

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.3
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Low
Integrity impact Low
Availability impact Low
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L