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. While the vulnerability is in Oracle VM VirtualBox, attacks may significantly impact additional products (scope change). Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of Oracle VM VirtualBox as well as unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data and unauthorized read access to a subset of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 7.3 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:H).
History

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 06:00:00 +0000

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Title Local Privilege Escalation and Denial of Service in Oracle VM VirtualBox 7.2.14

Wed, 19 Aug 2026 21:30:00 +0000

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Title Local Privilege Escalation and Denial of Service in Oracle VM VirtualBox 7.2.14

Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:30:00 +0000

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Title Local Privilege Escalation and Denial of Service in Oracle VM VirtualBox 7.2.14
Weaknesses CWE-200
CWE-400
Metrics ssvc

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


Wed, 19 Aug 2026 05:45:00 +0000

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Title Local Privilege Escalation and Denial of Service in Oracle VM VirtualBox 7.2.14
Weaknesses CWE-200
CWE-284
CWE-400

Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:15:00 +0000

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Description 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. While the vulnerability is in Oracle VM VirtualBox, attacks may significantly impact additional products (scope change). Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of Oracle VM VirtualBox as well as unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data and unauthorized read access to a subset of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 7.3 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:H).
First Time appeared Oracle
Oracle vm Virtualbox
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:oracle:vm_virtualbox:7.2.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Oracle
Oracle vm Virtualbox
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:H'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: oracle

Published: 2026-08-18T21:03:42.489Z

Updated: 2026-08-19T14:45:25.313Z

Reserved: 2026-08-04T22:06:34.619Z

Link: CVE-2026-71138

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-08-19T14:26:23.927Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-08-18T21:18:14.677

Modified: 2026-08-20T13:08:14.613

Link: CVE-2026-71138

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