CVE-2017-10240 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting Oracle VM VirtualBox versions prior to 5.1.24. This easily exploitable flaw allows a high-privileged attacker with infrastructure logon to cause a complete denial of service, unauthorized data modification, or unauthorized data disclosure within VirtualBox. While not actively exploited in the wild, there is no public exploit code available, and it has received minimal community attention. The CVSS 3.0 score is 7.3, indicating significant impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 5.1.22CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:oracle:vm_virtualbox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 5.1.24CPE match | cpe:2.3:a:oracle:vm_virtualbox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.