CVE-2020-2894
Status: ModifiedMedium (6)—
Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). Supported versions that are affected are Prior to 5.2.40, prior to 6.0.20 and prior to 6.1.6. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high privileged attacker 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. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of Oracle VM VirtualBox. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 6.0 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N).
CVSS
- Version: 3.1
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Base score: 6
Exploitation probability (EPSS)
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.57%
- Percentile among all scored CVEs: 46
- Score date: 10/7/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).
Affected technologies (2)
CWEs
- NVD-CWE-noinfo
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00001.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-09
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
- https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-581/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00001.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-09
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
- https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-581/
Raw JSON (NVD)
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