CVE-2017-3559

HighCVSS 7.9/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox component of Oracle Virtualization (subcomponent: Core). Supported versions that are affected are Prior to 5.0.38 and Prior to 5.1.20. Easily "exploitable" vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle VM VirtualBox executes to compromise Oracle VM VirtualBox. While the vulnerability is in Oracle VM VirtualBox, attacks may significantly impact additional products. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of Oracle VM VirtualBox as well as unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data and unauthorized read access to a subset of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 7.9 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:H).

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.9/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:H

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Apr 24, 2017
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2017-3559: High severity, CVSS 7.9 | Vulnix