What is CVE-2020-2911?

CVE-2020-2911 is a high-severity vulnerability in Oracle Vm Virtualbox. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2020-04-15.

How severe is CVE-2020-2911?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Is CVE-2020-2911 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Vulnerability in Oracle Vm Virtualbox

CVE-2020-2911

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). Supported versions that are affected are Prior to 5.2.40, prior to 6.0.20 and prior to 6.1.6. Difficult to exploit 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. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of Oracle VM VirtualBox. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 7.5 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H).

Published 2020-04-15 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.006 (44.5th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 45th percentile — 44.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.006 · newest: 0.006 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Oracle Vm Virtualbox
Oracle Corporation Vm Virtualbox — versions unspecified
openSUSE Leap — versions 15.1

Public proof-of-concept exploits

ARPSyndicate/cve-scores

References

www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html (Vendor Advisory)
www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-551/ (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory)
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00001.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-09 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-2911?: CVE-2020-2911 is a high-severity vulnerability in Oracle Vm Virtualbox. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2020-04-15.
How severe is CVE-2020-2911?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2020-2911 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.