CVE-2018-2837 is a high-severity vulnerability in Oracle VM VirtualBox, affecting versions prior to 5.1.36 and 5.2.10. This easily exploitable flaw allows a low-privileged attacker with logon access to the infrastructure to compromise VirtualBox, potentially leading to its complete takeover. While successful exploitation requires human interaction from a non-attacker, the impact extends beyond VirtualBox, affecting confidentiality, integrity, and availability with a CVSS 3.0 score of 8.2. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage regarding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 5.1.0, < 5.1.36CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:oracle:vm_virtualbox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 5.2.0, < 5.2.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:oracle:vm_virtualbox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 5.1.36CPE match | cpe:2.3:a:oracle:vm_virtualbox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 5.2.10CPE 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:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
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