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CVE-2017-3316

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-3316 is a high-severity vulnerability in the GUI subcomponent of Oracle VM VirtualBox, affecting versions prior to 5.0.32 and 5.1.14. This easily exploitable flaw allows a high-privileged attacker with network access to compromise VirtualBox, potentially leading to a complete system takeover with significant impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While successful attacks require human interaction, an exploit for local privilege escalation exists in ExploitDB, though there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
5.0.30CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:vm_virtualbox:5.0.30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.1.12CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:vm_virtualbox:5.1.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.4HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.7
Impact Score
6.0
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
6.96%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
93.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-41196 · Jan 27, 2017
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0696 is in the 95th percentile among its peer group of 146 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.4 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.2 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

oraclepatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

security.gentoo.org / glsa/201702-08
exploit-db.com / exploits/41196
oracle.com / technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2017-2881727.html
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/95579
securitytracker.com / id/1037638