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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2024-21259 json

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core).

published 2024-10-15 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-18973

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 19%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). Supported versions that are affected are Prior to 7.0.22 and prior to 7.1.2. Difficult to exploit 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 (scope change). Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of Oracle VM VirtualBox. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 7.5 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H).

Patch / fix

  • Oracle Corporation Oracle VM VirtualBox 7.0.22, 7.1.2
  • virtualbox Package Hub 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 7.1.4-lp156.2.4.1
  • kbuild Package Hub 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 0.1.9998+svn3613-bp156.2.3.1
  • virtualbox-kmp Package Hub 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 7.1.4-lp156.2.4.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:0364-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2024-21259 updated

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: component not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 19% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

  • Oracle Corporation Oracle VM VirtualBox

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.