CVE-2008-3431 — Oracle VirtualBox Insufficient Input Validation Vulnerability

provenance: imported · CVE: CVE-2008-3431 · CWE: CWE-264

CVE-2008-3431: Oracle VirtualBox Insufficient Input Validation Vulnerability

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV)


Vendor / project	Oracle
Product	VirtualBox
Date added	2022-03-03
Due date	2022-03-24
Ransomware campaign use	Unknown

Description

An input validation vulnerability exists in the VBoxDrv.sys driver of Sun xVM VirtualBox which allows attackers to locally execute arbitrary code.

Required action (CISA)

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Notes

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-3431

Weakness behind it

CISA records this vulnerability as an instance of CWE-264. From there the chain continues into CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques, all inside this corpus.

References

NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-3431
KEV catalog: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog

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