CVE-2021-2291 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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 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 access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 4.7 (Confidentiality impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N).

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Oracle	Vm Virtualbox

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:oracle:vm_virtualbox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

No data.

References

Link	Providers
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-36
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2021.html
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-457/

History

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00494}`	epss `{'score': 0.00571}`

Tue, 15 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00278}`	epss `{'score': 0.00494}`

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 15:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: oracle

Published: 2021-04-22T21:54:00

Updated: 2024-09-26T14:12:04.975Z

Reserved: 2020-12-09T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-2291

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T16:38:57.215Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-04-22T22:15:16.873

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:02:49.283

Link: CVE-2021-2291

Redhat

No data.

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