User Enumeration Affecting vm_virtualbox package, versions [,5.1.32)[5.2.0,5.2.6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
97.47% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-VMVIRTUALBOX-2383440
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed4 Jan 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 4 Jan 2018

CVE-2017-5715  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-203  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade vm_virtualbox to version 5.1.32, 5.2.6 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to User Enumeration. Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and indirect branch prediction may allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel analysis.

CVSS Scores

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