CVE-2024-21253 Denial of service in Oracle VM VirtualBox

Low 2.3 Published 15 Oct 2024 Updated 13 Mar 2025

A local high-privileged attacker can cause a partial denial of service in Oracle VM VirtualBox.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: An administrator
Attackable: Local or same network only
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: Available

What is CVE-2024-21253?

CVE-2024-21253 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Oracle Vm Virtualbox, published on 15 Oct 2024. 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 7.0.22. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high 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 partial denial of service (partial DOS) of Oracle VM VirtualBox. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 2.3 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L).

Weakness: CWE-404

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-21253?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Oracle Vm Virtualbox.

How do I fix CVE-2024-21253?

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-2024-21253 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-21253 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as GHSA-hj6p-xwh2-fc4f, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-21253.