CVE-2020-2958 is a high-severity vulnerability in Oracle VM VirtualBox versions prior to 5.2.40, 6.0.20, and 6.1.6, impacting the Core component. This difficult-to-exploit vulnerability allows a high-privileged attacker with infrastructure logon to achieve a complete takeover of the VirtualBox instance, potentially affecting additional products. With a CVSS v3.0 score of 7.5, successful exploitation leads to high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| 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:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
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