# CVE-2020-14695: Information disclosure in VM VirtualBox

> A local high-privileged attacker can exploit an out-of-bounds read in Oracle VM VirtualBox to access critical data.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 15 Jul 2020
- **Updated:** 26 Sep 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-4gg5-pmq6-mj4h, UBUNTU-CVE-2020-14695

## What is CVE-2020-14695?

CVE-2020-14695 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Opensuse Leap, published on 15 Jul 2020. 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 product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). Supported versions that are affected are Prior to 5.2.44, prior to 6.0.24 and prior to 6.1.12. 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. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 5.3 (Confidentiality impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N).

Weakness: CWE-125 (Out-of-bounds Read)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-14695?

It affects 2 products.


Products: Opensuse Leap, Oracle Vm Virtualbox.

## How do I fix CVE-2020-14695?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

## Is CVE-2020-14695 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-14695 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Opensuse Leap

- [CVE-2015-4902](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2015-4902/): Oracle Java SE Integrity Check (medium 5.3, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2017-14804](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-14804/): package builds could use directory traversal to write outside of target area (critical 9.9)
- [CVE-2019-20787](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-20787/): Teeworlds before 0.7.4 has an integer overflow when computing a tilemap size. (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2019-8341](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-8341/): Code injection in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2019-6438](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-6438/): Other in n/a (critical 9.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2020-14695 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2020-14695 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Opensuse Leap, published on 15 Jul 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-14695 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Opensuse Leap. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-14695/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-14695/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-14695
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-14695
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-14695

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