6.4

CVE-2020-2678: oracle corporation vm virtualbox

Modified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2020-2678
Published 15-01-2020Last modified 30-09-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2020-2678 is a medium (CVSS 6.4) vulnerability in oracle corporation vm virtualbox. EPSS estimates a 0.41% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 34.1% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
26/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
6.4/10
010
Medium · v3.0 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.41%
0%100%
Low · +0.01 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 1
MGASA-2020-0065

Timeline

  1. 15-01-2020
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 30-09-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). Supported versions that are affected are Prior to 5.2.36, prior to 6.0.16 and prior to 6.1.2. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle VM VirtualBox executes to compromise Oracle VM VirtualBox. While the vulnerability is in Oracle VM VirtualBox, attacks may significantly impact additional products. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized creation, deletion or modification access to critical data or all Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data as well as unauthorized read access to a subset of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 6.4 (Confidentiality and Integrity impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N).

CVSS metrics

6 scores · 3 sources · 3 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.41%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

34%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

Increase +0.01 pp

From 0.40% on 22-09-2026

22-09-202622-10-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Oracle1 product
  • vm_virtualbox≥ 5.2.0, < 5.2.36 | ≥ 6.0.0, < 6.0.16 | ≥ 6.1.0, < 6.1.2
Oracle corporation1 product
  • vm virtualbox≥ unspecified, < 5.2.36 | ≥ unspecified, < 6.0.16 | ≥ unspecified, < 6.1.2
Ubuntu1 product
  • virtualboxAll versions (No fix recorded)

3 vendors · 3 products

References

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