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CVE-2020-2908

20
FAUCET Score

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.

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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
15.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 6.0.20CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:vm_virtualbox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.2HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.5
Impact Score
6.0
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.58%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
44.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0058 is in the 88th percentile among its peer group of 360 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 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 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

oraclevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00001.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202101-09
Third Party Advisory
oracle.com / security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
Vendor Advisory
zerodayinitiative.com / advisories/ZDI-20-501
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry