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Improper Access Control

CVE-2023-21998

Medium
4.6/10

Summary

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). The supported versions that are affected are prior to 6.1.44, and 7.0.x prior to 7.0.8. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high privileged attackers 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 (scope change). 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. Note: This vulnerability applies to Windows VMs only.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • LOW
  • CHANGED
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • LOW
  • NONE

CWE-284 - Improper Access Control

Listed 5th in the 'OWASP Top Ten', improper (or broken) access control attacks are a fundamental type of vulnerability. This includes a broad range of design flaws that enable users to act outside of their intended permissions. They can use these privileges to gain access to restricted files and functionality such as accessing restricted information, falsifying records, destroying data, or executing commands.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published