CVE-2019-2556
Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox component of Oracle Virtualization (subcomponent: Core)...
Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox component of Oracle Virtualization (subcomponent: Core). Supported versions that are affected are prior to 5.2.24 and prior to 6.0.2. 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 unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 6.5 (Confidentiality impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N).
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Local
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- Low
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- None
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
NVD Score used
6.5
Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox component of Oracle Virtualization (subcomponent: Core). Supported versions that are affected are prior to 5.2.24 and prior to 6.0.2. 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 unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 6.5 (Confidentiality impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N).
- Record
CVE-2019-2556- CVSS 3.0
- 6.5 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N - CVSS 2.0
- 2.1 Low
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N - Updated
- 2026-11-02
CVE List No score
Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox component of Oracle Virtualization (subcomponent: Core). Supported versions that are affected are prior to 5.2.24 and prior to 6.0.2. 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 unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 6.5 (Confidentiality impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N).
- Record
CVE-2019-2556- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2019-12196 No score
Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox component of Oracle Virtualization (subcomponent: Core). Supported versions that are affected are prior to 5.2.24 and prior to 6.0.2. 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 unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 6.5 (Confidentiality impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N).
- Record
EUVD-2019-12196- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-92qw-m8c2-5f3v
6.5
Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox component of Oracle Virtualization (subcomponent: Core)...
Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox component of Oracle Virtualization (subcomponent: Core). Supported versions that are affected are prior to 5.2.24 and prior to 6.0.2. 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 unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 6.5 (Confidentiality impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N).
- Record
GHSA-92qw-m8c2-5f3v- CVSS 3.0
- 6.5 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N - Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2019-2556
6.5
Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox component of Oracle Virtualization (subcomponent: Core). Supported versions that are affected are prior to 5.2.24 and prior to 6.0.2. 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 unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 6.5 (Confidentiality impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N).
- Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2019-2556- CVSS 3.0
- 6.5 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N - Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVMGASA-2019-0055 No score
Updated virtualbox packages fix security vulnerabilities
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 access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data (CVE-2019-2446, CVE-2019-2448, CVE-2019-2450, CVE-2019-2451, CVE-2019-2554, CVE-2019-2555, CVE-2019-2556).
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 (CVE-2019-2500, CVE-2019-2524, CVE-2019-2548, CVE-2019-2552).
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 unauthorized read access to a subset of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data (CVE-2019-2501, CVE-2019-2504, CVE-2019-2505, CVE-2019-2506, CVE-2019-2553).
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 unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of Oracle VM VirtualBox (CVE-2019-2508, CVE-2019-2509, CVE-2019-2527).
Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via SOAP 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-2019-2511).
Difficult to exploit 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 (CVE-2019-2520, CVE-2019-2521, CVE-2019-2522, CVE-2019-2523, CVE-2019-2526).
Difficult to exploit 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 unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data (CVE-2019-2525).
For other fixes in this update, see the referenced changelog.
- Record
MGASA-2019-0055- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2019:1547-1 No score
Security update for virtualbox
This update for virtualbox to version 5.2.24 fixes the following issues:
Multiple security issues fixed:
CVE-2019-2500, CVE-2019-2524, CVE-2019-2552, CVE-2018-3309, CVE-2019-2520 CVE-2019-2521, CVE-2019-2522, CVE-2019-2523, CVE-2019-2526, CVE-2019-2548 CVE-2018-11763, CVE-2019-2511, CVE-2019-2508, CVE-2019-2509, CVE-2019-2527 CVE-2019-2450, CVE-2019-2451, CVE-2019-2555, CVE-2019-2554, CVE-2019-2556 CVE-2018-11784, CVE-2018-0734, CVE-2019-2525, CVE-2019-2446, CVE-2019-2448 CVE-2019-2501, CVE-2019-2504, CVE-2019-2505, CVE-2019-2506, and CVE-2019-2553 (bsc#1122212).
Other issues fixed:
- Linux Additions: fix for building vboxvideo on EL 7.6 standard kernel, contributed by Robert Conde
- USB: fixed a problem causing failures attaching SuperSpeed devices which report USB version 3.1 (rather than 3.0) on Windows hosts
- Audio: added support for surround speaker setups used by Windows 10 Build 1809
- Linux hosts: fixed conflict between Debian and Oracle build desktop files
- Linux guests: fixed building drivers on SLES 12.4
- Linux guests: fixed building shared folder driver with older kernels
- Record
openSUSE-SU-2019:1547-1- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2019:1814-1 No score
Security update for virtualbox
This update for virtualbox to version 6.0.10 fixes the following issues:
Security issues fixed:
- CVE-2019-2859 CVE-2019-2867 CVE-2019-2866 CVE-2019-2864 CVE-2019-2865 CVE-2019-1543 CVE-2019-2863 CVE-2019-2848 CVE-2019-2877 CVE-2019-2873 CVE-2019-2874 CVE-2019-2875 CVE-2019-2876 CVE-2019-2850 (boo#1141801)
- Record
openSUSE-SU-2019:1814-1- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
Affected packages
| Package | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|
virtualboxMageia:6 From an advisory covering 26 CVEs |
before 5.2.24-1.mga6 | 5.2.24-1.mga6 |
kmod-virtualboxMageia:6 From an advisory covering 26 CVEs |
before 5.2.24-1.mga6 | 5.2.24-1.mga6 |
kmod-vboxadditionsMageia:6 From an advisory covering 26 CVEs |
before 5.2.24-1.mga6 | 5.2.24-1.mga6 |
virtualboxUbuntu:16.04:LTS |
All versions, plus listed versions 5.0.4-dfsg-25.0.8-dfsg-15.0.10-dfsg-15.0.10-dfsg-25.0.10-dfsg-3 Show 25 moreShow less5.0.10-dfsg-45.0.10-dfsg-55.0.10-dfsg-65.0.10-dfsg-75.0.12-dfsg-15.0.12-dfsg-25.0.14-dfsg-15.0.14-dfsg-25.0.14-dfsg-2build15.0.16-dfsg-25.0.16-dfsg-35.0.18-dfsg-15.0.18-dfsg-1ubuntu15.0.18-dfsg-25.0.18-dfsg-2build15.0.18-dfsg-2ubuntu15.0.24-dfsg-0ubuntu1.16.04.15.0.32-dfsg-0ubuntu1.16.04.25.0.36-dfsg-0ubuntu1.16.04.25.0.40-dfsg-0ubuntu1.16.04.15.0.40-dfsg-0ubuntu1.16.04.25.1.34-dfsg-0ubuntu1.16.04.25.1.38-dfsg-0ubuntu1.16.04.15.1.38-dfsg-0ubuntu1.16.04.25.1.38-dfsg-0ubuntu1.16.04.3 |
None known |
virtualboxUbuntu:18.04:LTS |
All versions, plus listed versions 5.1.30-dfsg-15.2.0-dfsg-1build25.2.0-dfsg-25.2.0-dfsg-45.2.0-dfsg-5 Show 26 moreShow less5.2.2-dfsg-25.2.2-dfsg-3~build15.2.2-dfsg-35.2.4-dfsg-15.2.4-dfsg-25.2.6-dfsg-15.2.6-dfsg-25.2.6-dfsg-35.2.6-dfsg-3build15.2.6-dfsg-55.2.8-dfsg-25.2.8-dfsg-35.2.8-dfsg-55.2.8-dfsg-65.2.8-dfsg-75.2.10-dfsg-15.2.10-dfsg-25.2.10-dfsg-55.2.10-dfsg-65.2.10-dfsg-6ubuntu18.04.15.2.18-dfsg-2~ubuntu18.04.15.2.18-dfsg-2~ubuntu18.04.35.2.18-dfsg-2~ubuntu18.04.55.2.32-dfsg-0~ubuntu18.04.15.2.34-dfsg-0~ubuntu18.04.15.2.42-dfsg-0~ubuntu1.18.04.1 |
None known |
virtualboxUbuntu:20.04:LTS |
before 6.1.16-dfsg-6~ubuntu1.20.04.1, plus listed versions 6.0.14-dfsg-16.0.14-dfsg-2~build16.0.14-dfsg-26.1.0-dfsg-3build16.1.0-dfsg-3build2 Show 8 moreShow less6.1.2-dfsg-16.1.2-dfsg-1build16.1.4-dfsg-16.1.4-dfsg-2~build16.1.4-dfsg-26.1.4-dfsg-46.1.6-dfsg-16.1.10-dfsg-1~ubuntu1.20.04.1 |
6.1.16-dfsg-6~ubuntu1.20.04.1 |
virtualboxopenSUSE:Leap 15.0 From an advisory covering 30 CVEs |
before 5.2.24-lp150.4.33.1 | 5.2.24-lp150.4.33.1 |
virtualboxopenSUSE:Leap 15.0 From an advisory covering 52 CVEs |
before 6.0.10-lp151.2.6.1 | 6.0.10-lp151.2.6.1 |
virtualboxopenSUSE:Leap 15.1 From an advisory covering 52 CVEs |
before 6.0.10-lp151.2.6.1 | 6.0.10-lp151.2.6.1 |
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| affected, facts | ||
| aliases | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2019-2556 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) in Oracle Vm Virtualbox, published January 16, 2019. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.50%, the 43rd percentile. Fixed in virtualbox 6.1.16-dfsg-6~ubuntu1.20.04.1.
References
oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2019-5072801.html
securityfocus.com/bid/106568
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00030.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00056.html
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-2556
github.com/advisories/GHSA-92qw-m8c2-5f3v
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advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0055.html
bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24213
virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-5.2
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2019-01/msg00087.html
ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-2556
cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-2556
lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/YLQFCLW7556SZJCWGWKR74FS7FGGTK7J
bugzilla.suse.com/1122212
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-0734
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-11763
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-11784
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-3309
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-2446
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-2448
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-2450
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-2451
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-2500
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-2501
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-2504
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-2505
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-2506
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-2508
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-2509
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-2511
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-2520
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-2521
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-2522
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-2523
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-2524
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-2525
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-2526
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-2527
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-2548
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-2552
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-2553
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-2554
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-2555
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-2556
lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/RTRWENR4KO4H3XNPBQUVKRGCPIDNAWUN
bugzilla.suse.com/1097248
bugzilla.suse.com/1098050
bugzilla.suse.com/1112097
bugzilla.suse.com/1113894
bugzilla.suse.com/1115041
bugzilla.suse.com/1116050
bugzilla.suse.com/1130503
bugzilla.suse.com/1130588
bugzilla.suse.com/1132379
bugzilla.suse.com/1132439
bugzilla.suse.com/1132827
bugzilla.suse.com/1133289
bugzilla.suse.com/1133492
bugzilla.suse.com/1141801
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-3288
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-3289
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-3290
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-3291
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-3292
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-3293
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-3294
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-3295
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-3296
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-3297
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-3298
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-1543
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-2574
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-2656
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-2657
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-2678
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-2679
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-2680
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-2690
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-2696
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-2703
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-2721
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-2722
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-2723
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-2848
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-2850
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-2859
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-2863
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-2864
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-2865
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-2866
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-2867
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-2873
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-2874
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-2875
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-2876
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-2877