CVE-2023-22016 Denial of service in VM VirtualBox

Medium 4.2 Published 18 Jul 2023 Updated 13 Sep 2024

A high-privileged local attacker can cause a complete denial of service in Oracle VM VirtualBox through a vulnerability requiring user interaction.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: An administrator
Attackable: Local or same network only
Victim action needed: A user has to click or open something
Fix: Available

What is CVE-2023-22016?

CVE-2023-22016 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Oracle Vm Virtualbox, published on 18 Jul 2023. 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 6.1.46 and Prior to 7.0.10. 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 unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of Oracle VM VirtualBox. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 4.2 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-22016?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Oracle Vm Virtualbox.

How do I fix CVE-2023-22016?

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-2023-22016 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-22016 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as GHSA-gjv8-p3rw-hq5j, UBUNTU-CVE-2023-22016.