CVE-2023-21889

Description

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). Supported versions that are affected are Prior to 6.1.42 and prior to 7.0.6. Easily exploitable 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 (scope change). Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized read access to a subset of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 3.8 (Confidentiality impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N).

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected	Fixed
Oracle	VM VirtualBox	< 6.1.42, < 7.0.6	6.1.42

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

Ubuntu

Security tracker ↗

Release	Package	Fixed in	Advisory
Ubuntu 26.10	virtualbox	No fix yet	—
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS	virtualbox	No fix yet	—
Ubuntu 25.10	virtualbox	No fix yet	—
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS	virtualbox	No fix yet	—
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS	virtualbox	No fix yet	—

Show 3 more (older releases, extended support, other products)

Release	Package	Fixed in	Advisory
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS	virtualbox	No fix yet	—
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS	virtualbox	No fix yet	—
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS	virtualbox	No fix yet	—

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