CVE-2019-2721 is a critical vulnerability in Oracle VM VirtualBox, affecting versions prior to 5.2.28 and 6.0.6. This easily exploitable flaw allows a low-privileged attacker with logon access to the VirtualBox infrastructure to achieve a complete takeover of the virtual machine software. With a CVSS v3.0 score of 8.8 (High), successful exploitation can lead to full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability, potentially impacting additional products beyond VirtualBox itself. While not observed in active exploitation campaigns (KEV: No) and with limited community discussion, an exploit for host privilege escalation via the COM RPC interface has been publicly disclosed on ExploitDB (EDB-46747).
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 5.2.28CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:oracle:vm_virtualbox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 6.0.0, < 6.0.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:oracle:vm_virtualbox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 6.0.6CPE match | cpe:2.3:a:oracle:vm_virtualbox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
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