CVE-2020-14711 Privilege escalation in VM VirtualBox

What is CVE-2020-14711?

CVE-2020-14711 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, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

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. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle VM VirtualBox executes to compromise Oracle VM VirtualBox. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of Oracle VM VirtualBox. Note: The CVE-2020-14711 is applicable to macOS host only. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 6.5 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-14711?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Opensuse Leap, Oracle Vm Virtualbox.

How do I fix CVE-2020-14711?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2020-14711 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-14711 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Opensuse Leap

• CVE-2015-4902 Oracle Java SE Integrity Check Exploited Medium 5.3
• CVE-2017-14804 package builds could use directory traversal to write outside of target area Critical 9.9
• CVE-2019-20787 Teeworlds before 0.7.4 has an integer overflow when computing a tilemap size. Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-8341 Code injection in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-6438 Other in n/a Critical 9.8

All Opensuse Leap vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-739r-mw5v-58r2, UBUNTU-CVE-2020-14711.