CVE-2016-5545

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox component of Oracle Virtualization (subcomponent: GUI). Supported versions that are affected are VirtualBox prior to 5.0.32 and prior to 5.1.14. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP 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 update, insert or delete access to some of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data as well as unauthorized read access to a subset of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data and unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of Oracle VM VirtualBox. CVSS v3.0 Base Score 6.3 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts).

• CWE-254

• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2017-2881727.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95590Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037638Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-08Third Party Advisory
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2017-2881727.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95590Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037638Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-08Third Party Advisory

Published

Jan 27, 2017

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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