Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox component of Oracle Virtualization (subcomponent: Core).

Published 9 y ago 2017-04-24 · modified 4 mo ago 2026-06-17 · JSON

CVSS

8.5

v3.0 · NVD

CISA KEV

not known exploited

EPSS

2.9%

percentile 87%

Public exploits

Exploit-DB

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox component of Oracle Virtualization (subcomponent: Core). Supported versions that are affected are Prior to 5.0.38 and Prior to 5.1.20. Easily "exploitable" vulnerability allows unauthenticated 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. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of Oracle VM VirtualBox as well as unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data and unauthorized read access to a subset of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 8.5 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:H).

CISA SSVC assessment

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: 2 y ago 2024-10-07

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

2.91% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87% of all scored CVEs.

Exploits and detections

EDB-41904 Oracle VM VirtualBox - Guest-to-Host Privilege Escalation via Broken Length Handling in slirp Copy · local · 2017-04-20

CVSS scores

Assigned by	Version	Score	Vector
NVD	3.0	8.5	`CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:H`
NVD	2.0	4.6	`AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P`

Affected products

Oracle Corporation Oracle VM VirtualBox

References

oracle.com /technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2017-3236618.html · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred
securitytracker.com /id/1038288 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK, x_transferred
securityfocus.com /bid/97744 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred
exploit-db.com /exploits/41904/ · exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB, x_transferred

Sources

CVE List: CVE-2017-3558
NVD: CVE-2017-3558

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Summary