CVE-2009-3692 is an unspecified local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Sun VirtualBox 3.0.x before 3.0.8 on Solaris x86, Linux, and Mac OS X. With a CVSS score of 7.2, it is considered highly severe, allowing an attacker with local access to gain full control over the system (C:C/I:C/A:C) with low attack complexity. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, an exploit (EDB-9973) exists, demonstrating its potential for exploitation. Despite the available exploit, there is no evidence of active exploitation, and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
3.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:sun:virtualbox:3.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:sun:virtualbox:3.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:sun:virtualbox:3.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.0.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:sun:virtualbox:3.0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.5 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.