8.8
HIGH
CVE-2018-2844
Oracle VM VirtualBox Core Virtual Machine Takeover Vulnerability
Description

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox component of Oracle Virtualization (subcomponent: Core). Supported versions that are affected are Prior to 5.1.36 and Prior to 5.2.10. 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 takeover of Oracle VM VirtualBox. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 8.8 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H).

INFO

Published Date :

April 19, 2018, 2:29 a.m.

Last Modified :

Nov. 21, 2024, 4:04 a.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

No

Impact Score :

6.0

Exploitability Score :

2.0
Public PoC/Exploit Available at Github

CVE-2018-2844 has a 14 public PoC/Exploit available at Github. Go to the Public Exploits tab to see the list.

Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2018-2844 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Oracle vm_virtualbox
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).

None

Updated: 2 years, 3 months ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Jan. 11, 2023, 1:21 p.m. This repo has been linked 1044 different CVEs too.

None

Updated: 8 months, 2 weeks ago
1 stars 1 fork 1 watcher
Born at : May 16, 2021, 3:25 p.m. This repo has been linked 27 different CVEs too.

None

Updated: 6 months, 2 weeks ago
34 stars 3 fork 3 watcher
Born at : March 12, 2021, 12:22 p.m. This repo has been linked 1063 different CVEs too.

None

Updated: 4 weeks, 2 days ago
18 stars 10 fork 10 watcher
Born at : Jan. 2, 2021, 10:19 p.m. This repo has been linked 1053 different CVEs too.

None

Updated: 10 hours, 37 minutes ago
84 stars 32 fork 32 watcher
Born at : Oct. 2, 2020, 2:49 p.m. This repo has been linked 1114 different CVEs too.

None

Updated: 1 month, 1 week ago
14 stars 4 fork 4 watcher
Born at : May 25, 2020, 7:51 a.m. This repo has been linked 1029 different CVEs too.

Collection of resources about Virtualization

Updated: 2 years ago
8 stars 1 fork 1 watcher
Born at : Feb. 3, 2020, 4:29 a.m. This repo has been linked 2 different CVEs too.

Exploitchain of my livedemo from my Security Expedition in b0rkenland talk

Python Shell

Updated: 2 years, 4 months ago
2 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Dec. 27, 2019, 12:52 a.m. This repo has been linked 3 different CVEs too.

None

Updated: 2 weeks, 3 days ago
117 stars 33 fork 33 watcher
Born at : Dec. 22, 2019, 11:49 a.m. This repo has been linked 33 different CVEs too.

None

Updated: 2 years, 4 months ago
3 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : March 21, 2019, 6:24 a.m. This repo has been linked 14 different CVEs too.

None

Makefile C Assembly

Updated: 3 weeks, 6 days ago
99 stars 26 fork 26 watcher
Born at : Aug. 28, 2018, 8:04 a.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.

windows kernel security development

rootkit bootkit antirootkit antivirus shellcode driver framework

Updated: 1 week, 3 days ago
1997 stars 494 fork 494 watcher
Born at : March 19, 2018, 2:16 a.m. This repo has been linked 27 different CVEs too.

Collection of resources about Virtualization

hypervisor virtualization virtual-machine

Updated: 4 days, 11 hours ago
1838 stars 263 fork 263 watcher
Born at : Feb. 23, 2017, 9:18 p.m. This repo has been linked 2 different CVEs too.

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awesome cve poc

Updated: 6 days, 9 hours ago
3391 stars 683 fork 683 watcher
Born at : Feb. 2, 2017, 6:43 a.m. This repo has been linked 1044 different CVEs too.

Results are limited to the first 15 repositories due to potential performance issues.

The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2018-2844 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2018-2844 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

    Nov. 21, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2018-3678067.html
    Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103855
    Added Reference http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040707
    Added Reference https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201805-08
    Added Reference https://www.voidsecurity.in/2018/08/from-compiler-optimization-to-code.html
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Mar. 15, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://www.voidsecurity.in/2018/08/from-compiler-optimization-to-code.html [No Types Assigned]
  • CWE Remap by [email protected]

    Oct. 03, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed CWE CWE-284 CWE-284 NVD-CWE-noinfo
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    Mar. 07, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed Reference Type https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201805-08 No Types Assigned https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201805-08 Third Party Advisory
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Oct. 21, 2018

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201805-08 [No Types Assigned]
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Apr. 27, 2018

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V2 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
    Added CVSS V3 AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
    Changed Reference Type http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103855 No Types Assigned http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103855 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
    Changed Reference Type http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040707 No Types Assigned http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040707 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
    Changed Reference Type http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2018-3678067.html No Types Assigned http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2018-3678067.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
    Added CWE CWE-284
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:oracle:vm_virtualbox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 5.1.0 up to (excluding) 5.1.36 *cpe:2.3:a:oracle:vm_virtualbox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 5.2.0 up to (excluding) 5.2.10
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Apr. 20, 2018

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040707 [No Types Assigned]
    Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103855 [No Types Assigned]
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

While CVE identifies specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2018-2844 is associated with the following CWEs:

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC) stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2018-2844 weaknesses.

Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

3.59 }} -8.94%

score

0.86655

percentile

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