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CVE-2020-2575

24
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-2575 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting Oracle VM VirtualBox versions prior to 5.2.40, 6.0.20, and 6.1.6. This flaw allows a highly privileged attacker with infrastructure logon access to compromise VirtualBox, potentially leading to a complete takeover and significant impact on additional products. Despite being difficult to exploit, successful attacks can result in high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts, as indicated by its CVSS 3.0 Base Score of 7.5. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 5.2.40CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:vm_virtualbox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 6.0.0, < 6.0.20CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:vm_virtualbox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 6.1.0, < 6.1.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:vm_virtualbox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
0.8
Impact Score
6.0
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.70%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
49.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0070 is in the 96th percentile among its peer group of 160 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.2 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

oraclevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

security.gentoo.org / glsa/202101-09
Third Party Advisory
oracle.com / security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
Vendor Advisory
zerodayinitiative.com / advisories/ZDI-20-582
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry