High severity8.1NVD Advisory· Published Jan 18, 2023· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2023-21886
CVE-2023-21886
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. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise Oracle VM VirtualBox. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of Oracle VM VirtualBox. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 8.1 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).
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Affected products
5<6.1.42, <7.0.6+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: <6.1.42, <7.0.6
- (no CPE)range: *
- osv-coords3 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/virtualbox&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.4pkg:rpm/opensuse/virtualbox&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/opensuse/virtualbox-kmp&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.4
< 7.0.6-lp154.2.26.2+ 2 more
- (no CPE)range: < 7.0.6-lp154.2.26.2
- (no CPE)range: < 7.0.6-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 7.0.6-lp154.2.26.2
Patches
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References
2- www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2023.htmlnvdPatchVendor Advisory
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-07nvd
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