CVE-2026-21989

published 2026-01-20

CVE-2026-21989: 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. Easily…

high 8.1 CVSS 3.1

AV L AC L PR H UI N S C C H I H A L

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. 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 creation, deletion or modification access to critical data or all Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data as well as unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data and unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of Oracle VM VirtualBox. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 8.1 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L).

Affected

5 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	virtualbox	< virtualbox 7.2.6-dfsg-1 (sid)	virtualbox 7.2.6-dfsg-1 (sid)
oracle	vm_virtualbox	—	—
oracle	vm_virtualbox	—	—
oracle_corporation	oracle_vm_virtualbox	—	—
oracle_corporation	oracle_vm_virtualbox	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 8.1 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L

osv 8.1 HIGH