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CVE-2016-5545 Detail

Current Description

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox component of Oracle Virtualization (subcomponent: GUI). Supported versions that are affected are VirtualBox prior to 5.0.32 and prior to 5.1.14. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle VM VirtualBox. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data as well as unauthorized read access to a subset of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data and unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of Oracle VM VirtualBox. CVSS v3.0 Base Score 6.3 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts).

Source:  MITRE
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Impact

CVSS v3.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.3 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L (V3 legend)
Impact Score: 3.4
Exploitability Score: 2.8

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): Low
Integrity (I): Low
Availability (A): Low

CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.8 MEDIUM
Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) (V2 legend)
Impact Subscore: 6.4
Exploitability Subscore: 8.6

Access Vector (AV): Network
Access Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (AU): None
Confidentiality (C): Partial
Integrity (I): Partial
Availability (A): Partial
Additional Information:
Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Allows unauthorized disclosure of information
Allows unauthorized modification
Allows disruption of service

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Hyperlink Resource
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2017-2881727.html Patch Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95590 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037638 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-08 Third Party Advisory

Technical Details

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Known Affected Software Configurations Switch to CPE 2.2

Configuration 1 ( hide )
 cpe:2.3:a:oracle:vm_virtualbox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
     Show Matching CPE(s)
From (including)
5.0.0		Up to (excluding)
5.0.32
 cpe:2.3:a:oracle:vm_virtualbox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
     Show Matching CPE(s)
From (including)
5.1.0		Up to (excluding)
5.1.14


Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2016-5545
NVD Published Date:
01/27/2017
NVD Last Modified:
03/04/2019