Oracle VM VirtualBox 7.1.10 Core access control

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A vulnerability was found in Oracle VM VirtualBox 7.1.10. It has been classified as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component Core. The manipulation leads to access control. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-53028. Local access is required to approach this attack. No exploit exists. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability was found in Oracle VM VirtualBox 7.1.10 and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown code block of the component Core. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-284. The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor. 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 7.1.10. 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 takeover of Oracle VM VirtualBox. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 8.2 (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:H).

The advisory is shared at oracle.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-53028 since 06/24/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. Additional levels of successful authentication are required for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 07/18/2025). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 242294 (Oracle VM VirtualBox (July 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 (242294). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• Virtualization Software

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• Oracle

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• VM VirtualBox

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• 7.1.10

License

• open-source (GNU GPLv3)

Website

• Vendor: https://www.oracle.com

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