CVE-2015-4523

critical

Published 2017-09-11 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

9.3

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

10.0

Description

Blue Coat Malware Analysis Appliance (MAA) before 4.2.5 and Malware Analyzer G2 allow remote attackers to bypass a virtual machine protection mechanism and consequently write to arbitrary files, cause a denial of service (host reboot or reset to factory defaults), or execute arbitrary code via vectors related to saving files during analysis.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

85%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-34334 remote windows_x86-64 verified

Metasploit · 2014-08-14

Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.3.6 - 3D Acceleration Virtual Machine Escape (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
symantec	malware_analysis_appliance	`{"endIncluding":"4.2"}`
symantec	malware_analyzer_g2	`{"endIncluding":"3.5"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.