🛡️ CVE-2022-21620 — vm-virtualbox

🟠 CVSS 7.5 — High ✅ No Known Exploit NVD
7.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). Supported versions that are affected are Prior to 6.1.40. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows high 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 (scope change). Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of Oracle VM VirtualBox. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 7.5 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H).

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs administrative privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Affected software

CVE-2022-21620 is recorded against 1 package.

  • vm-virtualbox (fixed in 6.1.40)

Timeline and source

Published on 18 October 2022 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

security.gentoo.org
www.oracle.com
security.gentoo.org
www.oracle.com

CVE-2022-21620 on other distributions

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Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2022-10-18
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
vm-virtualbox — 6.1.40

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