Known exploited vulnerability

CVE-2008-3431

Oracle VirtualBox Insufficient Input Validation Vulnerability

Past due Added Federal deadline

What is affected

Vendor Oracle
Product VirtualBox
Weakness CWE-264

The vulnerability

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

Required action

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

US federal civilian agencies were required to act by 24 March 2022 under BOD 22-01. The deadline is a compliance date, not a measure of severity — it says nothing about how dangerous the flaw is to anyone else.

Where this comes from

Every field on this page is taken from the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, last synced 11 Nov 2026, 21:30. Nothing here is our own assessment. For the technical scoring, see the NVD record below.

NVD record ↗ CVE.org record ↗

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