Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). The supported version that is affected is Prior to 6.1.18. 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 ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of Oracle VM VirtualBox. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 6.0 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H).

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 6.1.18. 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 ability to cause     a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of Oracle VM VirtualBox. (CVE-2021-2124)

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 Prior to 6.1.18 versions of VM VirtualBox installed on the remote host are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the January 2021 CPU advisory.

  - Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). The     supported version that is affected is Prior to 6.1.18. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high     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. (CVE-2021-2073,     CVE-2021-2086, CVE-2021-2111, CVE-2021-2112, CVE-2021-2121, CVE-2021-2124, CVE-2021-2127, CVE-2021-2130)

  - Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). The     supported version that is affected is Prior to 6.1.18. 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-2021-2074)

  - Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). The     supported version that is affected is Prior to 6.1.18. 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-2021-2119,     CVE-2021-2120, CVE-2021-2128)

  - Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). The     supported version that is affected is Prior to 6.1.18. 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 read access to a     subset of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data. (CVE-2021-2123)

  - Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). The     supported version that is affected is Prior to 6.1.18. 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 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. (CVE-2021-2125)

  - Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). The     supported version that is affected is Prior to 6.1.18. 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 creation, deletion     or modification access to critical data or all Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data. (CVE-2021-2126,     CVE-2021-2131)

  - Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). The     supported version that is affected is Prior to 6.1.18. 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 creation, deletion     or modification access to critical data or all Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data as well as unauthorized     access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data. (CVE-2021-2129)

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
255568	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2021-2124	Nessus	Misc.	Local	medium
145378	GLSA-202101-15 : VirtualBox: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	Local	high
145222	Oracle VM VirtualBox (Jan 2021 CPU)	Nessus	Misc.	Local	high

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2021-2124

medium

Tenable Plugins

medium

high

high