CVE-2026-71140
LowCVSS 3.4Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk2th percentile - higher than 2% of all known CVEs
Summary
Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). The supported version that is affected is 7.2.14. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure to compromise Oracle VM VirtualBox. Successful attacks can result in unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some data as well as unauthorized read access to a subset of data. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 3.4 (Confidentiality and Integrity impacts).
Risk Assessment
An attacker with high privileges could access and modify virtual machine data, potentially leading to confidentiality and integrity breaches.
Recommendation
Restrict local access to the system and apply patches provided by Oracle.
Other vulnerabilities in Oracle VM VirtualBox
See all- CVE-2026-77178Unknown
Oracle VM VirtualBox before 7.2.8 allows guest OS users to cause an out-of-bounds write in the host OS in pcnetReceiveNoSync in DevPCNet.cpp in the PCNet (Am79C970A) network device model.
- CVE-2026-21990High
A vulnerability in Oracle VM VirtualBox (component: Core) affects versions 7.1.14 and 7.2.4. It is easily exploitable by a high privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where VirtualBox executes. Successful attacks can result in takeover of VirtualBox, and may significantly impact additional products (scope change). CVSS 3.1 Base Score is 8.2.
- CVE-2026-21989High
A vulnerability in Oracle VM VirtualBox (component: Core) affects versions 7.1.14 and 7.2.4. It is easily exploitable by a high privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where VirtualBox executes. Successful attacks can result in unauthorized creation, deletion or modification of data, unauthorized access to data, and partial denial of service. CVSS 3.1 Base Score is 8.1.
- CVE-2026-21988High
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, and the attack may impact other products (scope change).
- CVE-2026-21987High
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, and the attack may impact other products (scope change).
- CVE-2026-21986High
Vulnerability in Oracle VM VirtualBox (component: Core) affects versions 7.1.14 and 7.2.4. An unauthenticated attacker with local access can cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DoS) of VirtualBox. This vulnerability applies to Windows VMs only.
- CVE-2026-21984High
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).
- CVE-2026-21983High
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).
- CVE-2026-21982High
Vulnerability in Oracle VM VirtualBox (component: Core) affects versions 7.1.14 and 7.2.4. An unauthenticated attacker with access to the physical communication segment attached to the hardware where VirtualBox executes can take over VirtualBox. Exploitation is difficult.
- CVE-2026-21957High
Vulnerability in Oracle VM VirtualBox (component: Core) affects versions 7.1.14 and 7.2.4. It is difficult to exploit, requires high-privileged local access, but can lead to full takeover of VirtualBox. Attacks may impact additional products (scope change).
Original NVD description (English source)
Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). The supported version that is affected is 7.2.14. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle VM VirtualBox executes to compromise Oracle VM VirtualBox. 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. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 3.4 (Confidentiality and Integrity impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N).
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