Oracle VM VirtualBox 7.1.12/7.2.2 Core privilege defined with unsafe actions

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability described as critical has been identified in Oracle VM VirtualBox 7.1.12/7.2.2. This impacts an unknown function of the component Core. The manipulation results in privilege defined with unsafe actions. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2025-62590. Attacking locally is a requirement. No exploit is available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Oracle VM VirtualBox 7.1.12/7.2.2. Affected is an unknown code block of the component Core. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privilege defined with unsafe actions vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-267. A particular privilege, role, capability, or right can be used to perform unsafe actions that were not intended, even when it is assigned to the correct entity. 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). Supported versions that are affected are 7.1.12 and 7.2.2. 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 available at oracle.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2025-62590 since 10/16/2025. The exploitability is told to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. The exploitation requires an enhanced level of successful authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 271245 (Oracle VM VirtualBox (October 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 (271245). 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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• 7.1.12
• 7.2.2

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• open-source (GNU GPLv3)

Website

• Vendor: https://www.oracle.com

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