CVE-2020-2908 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting Oracle VM VirtualBox versions prior to 5.2.40, 6.0.20, and 6.1.6, as well as related openSUSE and Oracle products. This flaw allows a high-privileged attacker with logon access to the VirtualBox infrastructure to compromise the virtualization software, potentially leading to a complete takeover. With a CVSS v3.0 score of 8.2, successful exploitation can result in significant impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability, and may affect additional products beyond VirtualBox itself. Despite its severity, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
< 5.2.40CPE 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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
15.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 6.0.20CPE match | cpe:2.3:a:oracle:vm_virtualbox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
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