CVE-2020-2959 is a denial-of-service vulnerability in Oracle VM VirtualBox, affecting versions prior to 5.2.40, 6.0.20, and 6.1.6, as well as related openSUSE and Oracle products. An unauthenticated attacker with network access can exploit this flaw via MLD to cause a complete system crash or hang. With a CVSS v3.0 score of 8.6 (High), it presents a significant availability risk. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or notable community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.
| 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:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
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