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. 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). 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 relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2024:0364-1 advisory.

    Update to release 7.1.4:

    * NAT: Fixed DHCP problems with certain guests when domain is       empty
    * VMSVGA: Improved flickering, black screen and other screen       update issues with recent Linux kernels
    * Linux Guest Additions: Introduce initial support for kernel 6.12
    * EFI: Added missing LsiLogic MPT SCSI driver again to fix       booting from devices attached to this device if the EFI       firmware is used (7.1.0 regression)
    * EFI: Restored broken network boot support (7.1.0 regression)
    * Adressed CVE-2024-21248 [boo#1231735],       CVE-2024-21273 [boo#1231736], CVE-2024-21259 [boo#1231737],       CVE-2024-21263 [boo#1231738]

    - Make the Extension Pack work with our compiler flags and RT_NOEXCEPT choices. [boo#1231225]

    Update to release 7.1:

    * The GUI now offers a selection between Basic and Experienced       user level with reduced or full UI functionality.
    * VRDE: If user does not set up TLS with custom certificates,       enable it with self-signed certificate, including issuing a       new one before the old one expires
    * NAT: New engine with IPv6 support.
    * Linux host and guest: Added Wayland support for Clipboard       sharing.

    - Changed license from Gpl-2.0 to Gpl-3.0

    Version bump to VirtualBox 7.0.20 (released July 16 2024 by Oracle))

    This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

    - TPM: Fixed errors appearing the event viewer with Windows guests
    - macOS Hosts: Fixed passing USB devices to the VM (bug #21218)
    - Audio: Fixed recording with HDA emulation after newer Windows 10 / 11 guests got rebooted
    - USB: Fixed a deadlock in OHCI triggered when saving the current state of a VM or taking a snapshot (bug     #22059)
    - Linux Guest and Host: Introduced initial support for OpenSuse 15.6 kernel
    - Linux Guest and Host: Introduced initial support for RHEL 9.5 kernel (bug #22099)
    - Guest Additions: Shared Clipboard: Fixed issue when extra new lines were pasted when copying text     between Win and X11 (bug #21716)
    - UEFI Secure Boot: Add new Microsoft certificates to list for new VMs

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

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

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.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
248558	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-21273	Nessus	Misc.	medium
210739	openSUSE 15 Security Update : virtualbox (openSUSE-SU-2024:0364-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
209155	Oracle VM VirtualBox (October 2024 CPU)	Nessus	Misc.	high

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