CVE-2016-5538 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox component before 5.0.28 and 5.1.x before 5.1.8 in Oracle Virtualization allows local users to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via vectors related to Core, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-5501.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Complete

Integrity Impact Complete

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00138.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Oracle Subscribe	Vm Virtualbox Subscribe

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:oracle:vm_virtualbox:5.0.27:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:oracle:vm_virtualbox:5.1.7:::::::*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2016-6482	Unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox component before 5.0.28 and 5.1.x before 5.1.8 in Oracle Virtualization allows local users to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via vectors related to Core, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-5501.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2016-2881722.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93697
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037053

History

Fri, 11 Oct 2024 21:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: oracle

Published: 2016-10-25T14:00:00

Updated: 2024-10-10T18:28:34.332Z

Reserved: 2016-06-16T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-5538

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-06T01:07:57.766Z

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2016-10-25T14:30:14.053

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2016-5538

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-noinfo

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