PT-2023-4894 · Oracle+2 · Virtualbox+2

Aobo Wang + 1 · Published 2023-04-18 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2023-21998

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

4.6

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Oracle VM VirtualBox versions prior to 6.1.44 Oracle VM VirtualBox versions prior to 7.0.8

Description The issue is related to insufficient input validation in the Core component of Oracle VM VirtualBox, allowing a high-privileged attacker with logon access to the infrastructure to compromise Oracle VM VirtualBox. Successful attacks can result in unauthorized update, insert, or delete access to some of Oracle VM VirtualBox's accessible data, as well as unauthorized read access to a subset of Oracle VM VirtualBox's accessible data. This vulnerability applies to Windows VMs only.

Recommendations For versions prior to 6.1.44, update to version 6.1.44 or later. For versions prior to 7.0.8, update to version 7.0.8 or later.

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2023-1689

ALT-PU-2023-1690

ALT-PU-2023-1691

ALT-PU-2023-1692

ALT-PU-2023-1693

ALT-PU-2023-1786

ALT-PU-2023-1787

ALT-PU-2023-1788

ALT-PU-2023-1789

ALT-PU-2023-1790

ALT-PU-2023-4088

ALT-PU-2023-4089

ALT-PU-2023-4090

ALT-PU-2023-4664

ALT-PU-2023-4665

ALT-PU-2023-4729

ALT-PU-2023-4730

BDU:2023-05386

CVE-2023-21998

OPENSUSE-SU-2023:0166-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2023_0166-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:12912-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Virtualbox

Suse

References · 29

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2023:0166-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-21998 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-21998 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2023-05386 · Security Note
• https://oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2023.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2023-21998 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-21998 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-21998 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-21998 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:12912-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/1209529 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-21987 · Note
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/1211941 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-22000 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-22001 · Note