CVE-2026-87279

medium

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core).

Vendor / product: Oracle — vm virtualbox

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). The supported version that is affected is 7.2.16. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low 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 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. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 6.1 (Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H).

CVSS

6.1

6.1 (CVSS v3.1)

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

Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (secalert_us@oracle.com)

Timeline (UTC)

Published: 2026-09-15 20:19

Modified: 2026-09-23 13:51

NVD status: Analyzed

Last synced 1 day ago

Verified against the source API 2026-10-27 06:53 UTC

Exploitation

Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)

Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

oracle / vm_virtualbox 7.2.16

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

Vendor advisory: https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cspusep2026.html

References

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cspusep2026.html secalert_us@oracle.com

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-10-27 06:53 UTC · record ↗

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