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CVE-2020-2701

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-2701 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting Oracle VM VirtualBox versions prior to 5.2.36, 6.0.16, and 6.1.2. A highly privileged attacker with logon access to the VirtualBox infrastructure can exploit this vulnerability, potentially leading to a complete takeover of the VirtualBox instance and significant impact on other products. Despite its high CVSS score of 7.5, indicating high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts, the vulnerability is difficult to exploit. There is currently no public exploit intelligence, such as Metasploit or ExploitDB modules, and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage, suggesting it is not actively exploited in the wild.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 5.2.0, < 5.2.36CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:vm_virtualbox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 6.0.0, < 6.0.16CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:vm_virtualbox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 6.1.0, < 6.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:vm_virtualbox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 5.2.36CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:vm_virtualbox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 6.0.16CPE match
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
0.56%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
43.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0056 is in the 92nd 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

oraclepatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

security.gentoo.org / glsa/202101-09
Third Party Advisory
oracle.com / security-alerts/cpujan2020.html
PatchVendor Advisory
zerodayinitiative.com / advisories/ZDI-20-550
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry