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CVE-2016-5545

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.3 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-01-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-254

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).

Affected products

• Oracle Corporation VM VirtualBox: from 5.0.0 before 5.0.32; from 5.1.0 before 5.1.14 — fixed in 5.0.32, 5.1.14

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Oracle Corporation VM VirtualBox 5.0.32, 5.1.14. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2017-2881727.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95590
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037638
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-08
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2017-2881727.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95590
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037638
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-08

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