How severe is CVE-2008-3431?

CVE-2008-3431 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 8.8 (HIGH). EPSS estimates a 6.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2008-3431: Oracle VirtualBox Insufficient Input Validation

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Oracle VirtualBox Insufficient Input Validation Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2022-03-03

Remediation due

2022-03-24

Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.

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

Description

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CISA8.8 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableno

Technical impacttotal

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
-	-	n/a

References

11 Links

Vendor advisories

240095

Exploits & PoCs

6218

Third-party advisories

Mailing lists

20080804 CORE-2008-0716 - Sun xVM VirtualBox Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Vulnerability databases

Other references

Record Details

Published

2008-08-05

Last updated

2025-10-22

Assigner (CNA)

mitre

Credited to

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