5.5

CVE-2024-21161: oracle corporation vm virtualbox Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Modified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2024-21161
Published 16-07-2024Last modified 26-03-2025

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-21161 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in oracle corporation vm virtualbox. EPSS estimates a 0.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 17.5% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
22/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.27%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 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-2024-0275

Timeline

  1. 16-07-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 26-03-2025
    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 7.0.20. 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. Note: This vulnerability applies to Linux hosts only. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 5.5 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.27%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

18%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.27% on 22-09-2026

22-09-202622-10-2026

Known exploited

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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

Affected systems

Oracle1 product
Oracle corporation1 product
Ubuntu1 product
  • virtualboxAll versions (No fix recorded)

3 vendors · 3 products

References

3 links