Oracle VM VirtualBox 7.2.6 Core Local Privilege Escalation

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Oracle VM VirtualBox 7.2.6. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Core. The manipulation results in Local Privilege Escalation. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2026-35248. The attack requires a local approach. No exploit exists. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Oracle VM VirtualBox 7.2.6. Affected is an unknown function of the component Core. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a local privilege escalation vulnerability. 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 7.2.6. Difficult to exploit 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 update, insert or delete access to some of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data as well as 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 5.0 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L).

The advisory is available at oracle.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-35248 since 04/01/2026. The exploitability is told to be difficult. Local access is required to approach this attack. Additional levels of successful authentication are required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 310106 (Oracle VM VirtualBox (April 2026 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 (310106). 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

Version

• 7.2.6

License

• open-source (GNU GPLv3)

Website

• Vendor: https://www.oracle.com

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