oracle virtualbox CVE-2008-3431 is a vulnerability in Oracle Virtualbox
Published on August 5, 2008

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.

Vendor Advisory NVD

Known Exploited Vulnerability

This Oracle VirtualBox Insufficient Input Validation Vulnerability is part of CISA's list of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities. An input validation vulnerability exists in the VBoxDrv.sys driver of Sun xVM VirtualBox which allows attackers to locally execute arbitrary code.

The following remediation steps are recommended / required by March 24, 2022: Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2008-3431 can be exploited with local system access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. It has an exploitability score of 2.0 out of four. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.


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