Medium severity4.4NVD Advisory· Published Oct 18, 2022· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2022-21627
CVE-2022-21627
Description
Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). Supported versions that are affected are Prior to 6.1.40. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high 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. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 4.4 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).
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Affected products
3cpe:2.3:a:oracle:vm_virtualbox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
- cpe:2.3:a:oracle:vm_virtualbox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <6.1.40
- (no CPE)range: unspecified
- (no CPE)range: <6.1.40
Patches
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References
2- www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2022.htmlnvdPatchVendor Advisory
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/202212-03nvdThird Party Advisory
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