Oracle VM VirtualBox 7.1.6 Core improper authorization

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A vulnerability categorized as critical has been discovered in Oracle VM VirtualBox 7.1.6. Impacted is an unknown function of the component Core. The manipulation results in improper authorization. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2025-30719. The attack must be initiated from a local position. There is no exploit available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Oracle VM VirtualBox 7.1.6. Affected is an unknown functionality of the component Core. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a improper authorization vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-285. The product does not perform or incorrectly performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

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 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 and unauthorized read access to a subset of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 6.1 (Confidentiality and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H).

The advisory is available at oracle.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2025-30719 since 03/25/2025. The exploitability is told to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1548.002 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

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). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• Virtualization Software

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• Oracle

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• VM VirtualBox

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• 7.1.6

License

• open-source (GNU GPLv3)

Website

• Vendor: https://www.oracle.com

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