CVE-2020-2909 Denial of service in VM VirtualBox
A low-privileged attacker with local access can cause a partial denial of service in Oracle VM VirtualBox, requiring user interaction.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2020-2909?
CVE-2020-2909 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Opensuse Leap, published on 15 Apr 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 5.2.40, prior to 6.0.20 and prior to 6.1.6. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low 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 unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of Oracle VM VirtualBox. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 2.8 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L).
Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-2909?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Opensuse Leap, Oracle Vm Virtualbox.
How do I fix CVE-2020-2909?
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-2020-2909 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-2909 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Opensuse Leap
Sources
Also known as GHSA-87cx-954r-687p, UBUNTU-CVE-2020-2909.