CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-21983

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

Vulnerability in Oracle VM VirtualBox (component: Core) affects versions 7.1.14 and 7.2.4. A high-privileged attacker with local access can take over VirtualBox, but exploitation is difficult. The attack may impact other products (scope change).

Risk Assessment

Takeover of VirtualBox by a privileged attacker can lead to compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability, and may enable further attacks on other infrastructure components.

Recommendation

Apply the latest security patches from Oracle for VirtualBox. Restrict local access to systems running VirtualBox to trusted users only.

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Original NVD description (English source)

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). Supported versions that are affected are 7.1.14 and 7.2.4. 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 (scope change). Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of Oracle VM VirtualBox. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 7.5 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H).

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