CVE-2026-21982 | THREATINT

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).

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-01-05 | Published 2026-01-20 | Updated 2026-01-22 | Assigner oracle

HIGH: 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Problem types

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.

Product status

7.1.14 (semver)

affected

7.2.4 (semver)

affected

References

www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2026.html (Oracle Advisory) vendor-advisory

cve.org (CVE-2026-21982)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-21982)

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