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CVE-2008-3431

high · 8.8Actively exploited

On the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Added 2022-03-03Remediation due 2022-03-24

The VBoxDrvNtDeviceControl function in VBoxDrv.sys in Sun xVM VirtualBox before 1.6.4 uses the METHOD_NEITHER communication method for IOCTLs and does not properly validate a buffer associated with the Irp object, which allows local users to gain privileges by opening the \\.\VBoxDrv device and calling DeviceIoControl to send a crafted kernel address.

8.8
CVSS
6.9%
EPSS (exploit prob.)
94th
EPSS percentile
2008-08-05
Published

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
oraclevirtualbox< 1.6.4

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References

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curl https://evil-db.io/api/v1/cve/CVE-2008-3431