CVE-2018-2845: oracle corporation vm virtualbox
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2018-2845 is a medium (CVSS 6.6) vulnerability in oracle corporation vm virtualbox. EPSS estimates a 0.43% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 35.8% of scored vulnerabilities.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 1Timeline
- 19-04-2018PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 03-10-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox component of Oracle Virtualization (subcomponent: Core). Supported versions that are affected are Prior to 5.1.36 and Prior to 5.2.10. 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 ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of Oracle VM VirtualBox as well as unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data and unauthorized read access to a subset of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 6.6 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H).
CVSS metrics
3 scores · 2 sources · 2 versions- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated6.6MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
0.43%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
36%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
-0.01 pp
From 0.44% on 18-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeNo weakness data has been published for this record.
Affected systems
Oracle1 product
- vm_virtualbox≥ 5.1.0, < 5.1.36 | ≥ 5.2.0, < 5.2.10
Oracle corporation1 product
- vm virtualbox≥ unspecified, < 5.1.36 | ≥ unspecified, < 5.2.10
Ubuntu1 product
- virtualboxAll versions (No fix recorded)
3 vendors · 3 products
References
6 links- www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2018-3678067.htmlX Refsource CONFIRMPatchVendor AdvisoryREPORT