CVE-2018-3055 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting Oracle VM VirtualBox versions prior to 5.2.16. This flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker with infrastructure logon to cause a complete denial of service (system hang or crash) and gain unauthorized read access to a subset of VirtualBox data. Exploitation requires human interaction from a non-attacker and can impact additional products beyond VirtualBox. While the CVSS 3.0 Base Score is 7.1, there is no known active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 5.2.16CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:oracle:vm_virtualbox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:H
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