THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2021-2279
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2021-2279

Vm Virtualbox vulnerability

CVSS
8.1
EPSS
3.3%
EPSS pct
87th
Exploited
No known
Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). The supported version that is affected is Prior to 6.1.20. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via RDP to compromise Oracle VM VirtualBox. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of Oracle VM VirtualBox. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 8.1 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).
Affected vendor
Oracle
Affected product
Vm Virtualbox
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Published
2021-04-22

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, high attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.3% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 87% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2021-2279

  • Confirm whether Oracle Vm Virtualbox is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2021-2279.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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