The 7.0.22 and 7.1.2 versions of VM VirtualBox installed on the remote host are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the October 2024 CPU advisory.

  - Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). Supported     versions that are affected are Prior to 7.0.22 and prior to 7.1.2. 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. (CVE-2024-21259)

  - Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). Supported     versions that are affected are Prior to 7.0.22 and prior to 7.1.2. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows     low 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 hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of Oracle VM VirtualBox and unauthorized read access     to a subset of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data. (CVE-2024-21263)

  - Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). Supported     versions that are affected are Prior to 7.0.22 and prior to 7.1.2. Easily exploitable 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 unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible     data. (CVE-2024-21273)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Detections

Analytics

Oracle VM VirtualBox (October 2024 CPU)

high Nessus Plugin ID 209155

Version 1.2

Version 1.1

Version 1.2 Oct 18, 2024, 8:22 PM IAVM reference STIG Severity Plugin Feed: 202410182022
Version 1.1 Oct 16, 2024, 10:11 PM New Plugin Feed: 202410162211