What is CVE-2016-5545?

CVE-2016-5545 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Oracle Vm Virtualbox, classified under CWE-254. CVSS score: 6.3/10. Published 2017-01-27.

How severe is CVE-2016-5545?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.3 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Oracle Vm Virtualbox

CVE-2016-5545

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox component of Oracle Virtualization (subcomponent: GUI). Supported versions that are affected are VirtualBox prior to 5.0.32 and prior to 5.1.14. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle VM VirtualBox. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data as well as unauthorized read access to a subset of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data and unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of Oracle VM VirtualBox. CVSS v3.0 Base Score 6.3 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts).

Published 2017-01-27 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.015 (73.0th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 73rd percentile — 73.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.015 · newest: 0.015 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Oracle Vm Virtualbox — versions prior to 5.0.32, prior to 5.1.14
Oracle Vm Virtualbox

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-254

References

security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-08 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
www.securitytracker.com/id/1037638 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/95590 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2017-2881727.html (Patch, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-5545?: CVE-2016-5545 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Oracle Vm Virtualbox, classified under CWE-254. CVSS score: 6.3/10. Published 2017-01-27.
How severe is CVE-2016-5545?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.3 out of 10.