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 unauthenticated attacker with access to the physical communication segment attached to the hardware where the Oracle VM VirtualBox executes to compromise Oracle VM VirtualBox. 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:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).
History

Wed, 21 Jan 2026 15:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Weaknesses CWE-284
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Tue, 20 Jan 2026 22:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description 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 unauthenticated attacker with access to the physical communication segment attached to the hardware where the Oracle VM VirtualBox executes to compromise Oracle VM VirtualBox. 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:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).
First Time appeared Oracle
Oracle vm Virtualbox
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:oracle:vm_virtualbox:7.1.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:vm_virtualbox:7.2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Oracle
Oracle vm Virtualbox
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: oracle

Published: 2026-01-20T21:56:39.294Z

Updated: 2026-01-22T04:55:24.318Z

Reserved: 2026-01-05T18:07:34.716Z

Link: CVE-2026-21982

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-01-21T14:28:45.484Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-01-20T22:16:01.637

Modified: 2026-01-21T15:16:09.250

Link: CVE-2026-21982

cve-icon Redhat

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