User Enumeration Affecting vm_virtualbox package, versions [,6.0.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
0.07% (31st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-VMVIRTUALBOX-2383606
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed15 Nov 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 15 Nov 2018

CVE-2018-5407  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-203  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade vm_virtualbox to version 6.0.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to User Enumeration. Simultaneous Multi-threading (SMT) in processors can enable local users to exploit software vulnerable to timing attacks via a side-channel timing attack on 'port contention'.

CVSS Scores

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