VulnerabilityAnalyzed

CVE-2026-21981

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

MEDIUM 4.6EPSS 0.13%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.13%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

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. 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 read access to a subset of 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 4.6 (Confidentiality and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:L).

CVSS 3.1: 4.6 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:L
EPSS: 0.13% probability · 3th percentile
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-269
Affected: oracle/vm virtualbox
Source: secalert_us@oracle.com

References

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2026.htmlVendor Advisory

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.