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CVE-2023-22099

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). ...

8.2 High

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). Supported versions that are affected are Prior to 7.0.12. 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 takeover of Oracle VM VirtualBox. Note: Only applicable to 7.0.x platform. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 8.2 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H).

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges needed
High
User interaction
None

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

Exploit likelihood

0.37%Up 0.3 points since Oct 18, 2023
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

CVE List Score used 8.2

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). Supported versions that are affected are Prior to 7.0.12. 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 takeover of Oracle VM VirtualBox. Note: Only applicable to 7.0.x platform. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 8.2 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H).

Record
CVE-2023-22099
CVSS 3.1
8.2 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness
CWE-269
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2023-26264 8.2

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). Supported versions that are affected are Prior to 7.0.12. 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 takeover of Oracle VM VirtualBox. Note: Only applicable to 7.0.x platform. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 8.2 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H).

Record
EUVD-2023-26264
CVSS 3.1
8.2 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-vjwc-c2cc-76g5 7.3

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). ...

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). Supported versions that are affected are Prior to 7.0.12. 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 ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of Oracle VM VirtualBox as well as unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data and unauthorized read access to a subset of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data. Note: Only applicable to 7.0.x platform. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 7.3 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:H).

Record
GHSA-vjwc-c2cc-76g5
CVSS 3.1
7.3 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:H
Weakness
CWE-269
Updated
2026-11-02
NVD 8.2

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). Supported versions that are affected are Prior to 7.0.12. 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 takeover of Oracle VM VirtualBox. Note: Only applicable to 7.0.x platform. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 8.2 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H).

Record
CVE-2023-22099
CVSS 3.1
8.2 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness
CWE-269
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2023-22099 8.2

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). Supported versions that are affected are Prior to 7.0.12. 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 takeover of Oracle VM VirtualBox. Note: Only applicable to 7.0.x platform. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 8.2 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H).

Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2023-22099
CVSS 3.1
8.2 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVMGASA-2023-0335 No score

Updated virtualbox packages fix security vulnerabilities and other bugs

This update fixes several security issues and other bugs, among them:

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). Supported versions that are affected are Prior to 7.0.12. 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 ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of Oracle VM VirtualBox as well as unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data and unauthorized read access to a subset of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data. Note: Only applicable to 7.0.x platform. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 7.3 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:H). (CVE-2023-22098)

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). Supported versions that are affected are Prior to 7.0.12. 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 takeover of Oracle VM VirtualBox. Note: Only applicable to 7.0.x platform. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 8.2 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H). (CVE-2023-22099)

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). Supported versions that are affected are Prior to 7.0.12. 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 and unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of Oracle VM VirtualBox. Note: Only applicable to 7.0.x platform. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 7.9 (Confidentiality and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:H). (CVE-2023-22100)

WARNING VirtualBox 7.0.12 and Windows guest additions between (not incl) 7.0.10 & 7.0.13r160164 are problematic for Windows guests less than Win10 https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32587

Record
MGASA-2023-0335
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2023:0351-1 No score

Security update for virtualbox

This update for virtualbox fixes the following issues:

  • Version bump to VirtualBox 7.0.12 (released October 17 2023 by Oracle)

    Fixes the following:

    • CVE-2023-22098 (boo#1216363)
    • CVE-2023-22099 (boo#1216364)
    • CVE-2023-22100 (boo#1216365)

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

  • VMM: Fixed using a debugger inside the guest under certain circumstances (bugs #21413 and #21546)

  • VMM: Fixed detection of VT-x being used by other hypervisors (bug #21867)

  • VMM: Introduced additional improvements in Split Lock Detection feature of recent Intel CPUs on Linux hosts (bug #20180)

  • GUI: Fixed issue when the nested hardware virtualization setting was not displayed in the VM details panel (bug #21707)

  • GUI: Introduced NLS update for Croatian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch and Turkish languages as well as added general look-and-feel improvements

  • Devices: Fixed black screen in Windows guests with multiple guest screens when 3D is disabled (7.0.10 regression)

  • Devices: Fixed PCI device identifiers for the VirtIO network interface (bug #21516)

  • Devices: Fixed VLAN support for the VirtIO network interface (bug #21778)

  • Devices: Fixed loading saved states when a TPM is configured (7.0.10 regression, bug #21773)

  • Networking: Fixed memory leaks in the VBoxIntNetSwitch process on macOS (bug #21752)

  • Networking: Fixed TCP connections with IP addresses ending on .2 when the NAT network attachment is used (bug #21513)

  • VRDP: Added general improvements

  • VBoxManage: Added improvements for 'list usbfilters' command

  • Unattended: Added kick start file support for Oracle Linux 8 and Oracle Linux 9.

  • Main: Added more Linux OS subtypes

  • Host Services: Fixed Guest Properties service crash under rare circumstance

  • Linux Host and Guest: Fixed few 'field-spanning write' kernel warnings (bugs #21410 and #21862)

  • Linux Guest Additions: Added more fixes for RHEL 8.9 and 9.3 kernel

  • Linux Guest Additions: Added more fixes for kernel 6.4

  • Linux Guest Additions: Added initial support for OpenSUSE 15.5 kernel

  • Linux Guest Additions: Added initial support for kernels 6.5 and 6.6

  • Linux Guest Additions: Added version reporting for 'rcvboxadd status-kernel' and 'rcvboxadd status-user' commands

  • BIOS: Restored support for ISA SCSI HBAs in the BIOS (bug #21736)

  • Convert to systemd-sysusers

Record
openSUSE-SU-2023:0351-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2023:0352-1 No score

Security update for virtualbox

This update for virtualbox fixes the following issues:

  • Version bump to VirtualBox 7.0.12 (released October 17 2023 by Oracle)

    Fixes the following:

    • CVE-2023-22098 (boo#1216363)
    • CVE-2023-22099 (boo#1216364)
    • CVE-2023-22100 (boo#1216365)

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

  • VMM: Fixed using a debugger inside the guest under certain circumstances (bugs #21413 and #21546)

  • VMM: Fixed detection of VT-x being used by other hypervisors (bug #21867)

  • VMM: Introduced additional improvements in Split Lock Detection feature of recent Intel CPUs on Linux hosts (bug #20180)

  • GUI: Fixed issue when the nested hardware virtualization setting was not displayed in the VM details panel (bug #21707)

  • GUI: Introduced NLS update for Croatian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch and Turkish languages as well as added general look-and-feel improvements

  • Devices: Fixed black screen in Windows guests with multiple guest screens when 3D is disabled (7.0.10 regression)

  • Devices: Fixed PCI device identifiers for the VirtIO network interface (bug #21516)

  • Devices: Fixed VLAN support for the VirtIO network interface (bug #21778)

  • Devices: Fixed loading saved states when a TPM is configured (7.0.10 regression, bug #21773)

  • Networking: Fixed memory leaks in the VBoxIntNetSwitch process on macOS (bug #21752)

  • Networking: Fixed TCP connections with IP addresses ending on .2 when the NAT network attachment is used (bug #21513)

  • VRDP: Added general improvements

  • VBoxManage: Added improvements for 'list usbfilters' command

  • Unattended: Added kick start file support for Oracle Linux 8 and Oracle Linux 9.

  • Main: Added more Linux OS subtypes

  • Host Services: Fixed Guest Properties service crash under rare circumstance

  • Linux Host and Guest: Fixed few 'field-spanning write' kernel warnings (bugs #21410 and #21862)

  • Linux Guest Additions: Added more fixes for RHEL 8.9 and 9.3 kernel

  • Linux Guest Additions: Added more fixes for kernel 6.4

  • Linux Guest Additions: Added initial support for OpenSUSE 15.5 kernel

  • Linux Guest Additions: Added initial support for kernels 6.5 and 6.6

  • Linux Guest Additions: Added version reporting for 'rcvboxadd status-kernel' and 'rcvboxadd status-user' commands

  • BIOS: Restored support for ISA SCSI HBAs in the BIOS (bug #21736)

  • Convert to systemd-sysusers

  • Fix problems with 6.5 kernels and shared folders. (boo#1215463).

Record
openSUSE-SU-2023:0352-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2024:13355-1 No score

python3-virtualbox-7.0.12-1.1 on GA media

These are all security issues fixed in the python3-virtualbox-7.0.12-1.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Record
openSUSE-SU-2024:13355-1
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
virtualbox
Mageia:9
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
 before 7.0.12-2.mga9
7.0.12-2.mga9
kmod-virtualbox
Mageia:9
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
 before 7.0.12-38.mga9
7.0.12-38.mga9
virtualbox
Ubuntu: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 less
5.0.10-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
virtualbox
Ubuntu: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 less
5.2.2-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
virtualbox
Ubuntu:20.04:LTS
 All versions, 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 18 moreShow less
6.1.2-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~ubuntu1.20.04.16.1.16-dfsg-6~ubuntu1.20.04.16.1.16-dfsg-6~ubuntu1.20.04.26.1.22-dfsg-2~ubuntu1.20.04.16.1.26-dfsg-3~ubuntu1.20.04.16.1.26-dfsg-3~ubuntu1.20.04.26.1.32-dfsg-1~ubuntu1.20.04.16.1.34-dfsg-3~ubuntu1.20.04.16.1.38-dfsg-3~ubuntu1.20.04.16.1.48-dfsg-1~ubuntu1.20.04.16.1.50-dfsg-1~ubuntu1.20.04.1
 None known
virtualbox
Ubuntu:22.04:LTS
 All versions, plus listed versions
6.1.26-dfsg-46.1.28-dfsg-16.1.30-dfsg-16.1.32-dfsg-16.1.32-dfsg-1build1
Show 5 moreShow less
6.1.34-dfsg-3~ubuntu1.22.04.16.1.38-dfsg-3~ubuntu1.22.04.16.1.48-dfsg-1~ubuntu1.22.04.16.1.50-dfsg-1~ubuntu1.22.04.16.1.50-dfsg-1~ubuntu1.22.04.3
 None known
virtualbox
Ubuntu:24.04:LTS
 All versions, plus listed versions
7.0.10-dfsg-37.0.12-dfsg-17.0.12-dfsg-1build17.0.14-dfsg-17.0.14-dfsg-2
Show 8 moreShow less
7.0.14-dfsg-47.0.14-dfsg-4build47.0.14-dfsg-4build57.0.16-dfsg-17.0.16-dfsg-27.0.16-dfsg-2ubuntu17.0.16-dfsg-2ubuntu1.17.0.16-dfsg-2ubuntu1.3
 None known
virtualbox
openSUSE:Leap 15.4
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
 before 7.0.12-lp154.2.43.1
7.0.12-lp154.2.43.1
virtualbox-kmp
openSUSE:Leap 15.4
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
 before 7.0.12-lp154.2.43.1
7.0.12-lp154.2.43.1
virtualbox
openSUSE:Leap 15.5
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
 before 7.0.12-lp155.2.13.1
7.0.12-lp155.2.13.1
virtualbox-kmp
openSUSE:Leap 15.5
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
 before 7.0.12-lp155.2.13.1
7.0.12-lp155.2.13.1
virtualbox
openSUSE:Tumbleweed
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
 before 7.0.12-1.1
7.0.12-1.1

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
affected, facts
aliases, publishedEUVD
first indexedCVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2023-22099 is a high vulnerability (CVSS 8.2) in Oracle Vm Virtualbox, published October 17, 2023. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.37%, the 31st percentile. No source names a fixed version.

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