CVE-2016-5545

medium

Published 2017-01-27 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

6.3

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.3

Description

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox component of Oracle Virtualization (subcomponent: GUI). Supported versions that are affected are VirtualBox prior to 5.0.32 and prior to 5.1.14. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle VM VirtualBox. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data as well as unauthorized read access to a subset of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data and unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of Oracle VM VirtualBox. CVSS v3.0 Base Score 6.3 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts).

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

73%

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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OS impact

Debian Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
sid	Fixed	`5.1.14-dfsg-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
oracle	vm_virtualbox	`{"startIncluding":"5.0.0","endExcluding":"5.0.32"}`	`5.0.32`

References

CWEs

CWE-254

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

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