CVE-2018-2845 Denial of service in VM VirtualBox

Medium 6.6 Published 19 Apr 2018 Updated 3 Oct 2024

A low-privileged attacker can cause a complete denial of service and unauthorized data access in Oracle VM VirtualBox.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Any signed-in user
Attackable: Local or same network only
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: Available

What is CVE-2018-2845?

CVE-2018-2845 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Oracle Vm Virtualbox, published on 19 Apr 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox component of Oracle Virtualization (subcomponent: Core). Supported versions that are affected are Prior to 5.1.36 and Prior to 5.2.10. Easily exploitable 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 ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of Oracle VM VirtualBox as well as unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data and unauthorized read access to a subset of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 6.6 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H).

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-2845?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Oracle Vm Virtualbox.

How do I fix CVE-2018-2845?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2018-2845 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-2845 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as GHSA-3wgh-5r9h-pf5v, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-2845.