Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). The supported version that is affected is Prior to 6.1.16. 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. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 6.0 (Confidentiality impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N).

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). The     supported version that is affected is Prior to 6.1.16. 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. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized access to     critical data or complete access to all Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data. (CVE-2020-14884)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202101-15 (VirtualBox: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in VirtualBox. Please       review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
  Impact :

    Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

The version of Oracle VM VirtualBox installed on the remote host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced  in the October 2020 CPU advisory, including the following:

  - Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). Supported     versions that is affected are Prior to 6.1.16. 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. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of Oracle VM     VirtualBox. (CVE-2020-14872)

  - Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). Supported     versions that is affected are Prior to 6.1.16. 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. uccessful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized access to     critical data or complete access to all Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data.     (CVE-2020-14881, CVE-2020-14884, CVE-2020-14885, CVE-2020-14886, CVE-2020-14889)

  - Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). Supported     versions that is affected are Prior to 6.1.16. 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. (CVE-2020-14892)

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
259441	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2020-14884	Nessus	Misc.	Local	medium
145378	GLSA-202101-15 : VirtualBox: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	Local	high
141784	Oracle VM VirtualBox (Oct 2020 CPU)	Nessus	Misc.	Local	high

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2020-14884

medium

Tenable Plugins

medium

high

high