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CVE-2019-2446 json

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox component of Oracle Virtualization (subcomponent: Core).

published 7y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2019-12086

cvss
5.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 44%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox component of Oracle Virtualization (subcomponent: Core). Supported versions that are affected are prior to 5.2.24 and prior to 6.0.2. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle VM VirtualBox executes to compromise Oracle VM VirtualBox. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 5.5 (Confidentiality impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N).

Patch / fix

  • Oracle Corporation VM VirtualBox 5.2.24, 6.0.2
  • virtualbox Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 6.1.16-dfsg-6~ubuntu1.20.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2019-2446

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • virtualbox openSUSE Leap 15.1, openSUSE Leap 15.0 6.0.10-lp151.2.6.1
  • virtualbox openSUSE Leap 15.0 5.2.24-lp150.4.33.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2019:1814-1openSUSE-SU-2019:1547-1

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2y ago

Exploit prediction

0.52% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 44% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 5.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected products

  • Oracle Corporation VM VirtualBox

References

Sources

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