CVE-2017-3290 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting Oracle VM VirtualBox versions prior to 5.0.32 and 5.1.14, specifically within the Shared Folder subcomponent. This easily exploitable flaw allows a high-privileged attacker with infrastructure logon to compromise VirtualBox, leading to unauthorized data modification, deletion, or creation, and complete denial-of-service. With a CVSS v3.0 score of 7.9, it primarily impacts integrity and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(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 version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
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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.