Oracle VM VirtualBox 7.1.6 Core integer overflow

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A vulnerability was found in Oracle VM VirtualBox 7.1.6. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Core. The manipulation leads to Local Privilege Escalation. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2025-30712. The attack must be carried out locally. There is no available exploit. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Oracle VM VirtualBox 7.1.6. This issue affects an unknown function of the component Core. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a local privilege escalation vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-190. The product performs a calculation that can produce an integer overflow or wraparound, when the logic assumes that the resulting value will always be larger than the original value. This can introduce other weaknesses when the calculation is used for resource management or execution control. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). The supported version that is affected is 7.1.6. 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).

The advisory is shared at oracle.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-30712 since 03/25/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. Additional levels of successful authentication are necessary for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 234547 (Oracle VM VirtualBox (April 2025 CPU)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (234547). Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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• Virtualization Software

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• Oracle

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• VM VirtualBox

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• 7.1.6

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• open-source (GNU GPLv3)

Website

• Vendor: https://www.oracle.com

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Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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