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CVE-2022-21465

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-21465 is a high-privileged vulnerability affecting Oracle VM VirtualBox versions prior to 6.1.34. An attacker with logon access to the infrastructure where VirtualBox runs can exploit this vulnerability to cause a complete denial of service (frequent crashes or hangs) and unauthorized modification or deletion of VirtualBox data. With a CVSS 3.1 score of 6.7 (Medium), it requires high privileges but has low attack complexity. There is currently no known active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 6.1.0, < 6.1.34CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:vm_virtualbox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 6.1.34CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:vm_virtualbox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.7MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.5
Impact Score
4.7
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.36%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
28.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0036 is in the 77th percentile among its peer group of 3,720 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

oraclevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

security.gentoo.org / glsa/202208-36
Third Party Advisory
oracle.com / security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
Vendor Advisory