Oracle VM VirtualBox 7.2.8 Core privileges management

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Oracle VM VirtualBox 7.2.8. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Core. Such manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-47050. An attack has to be approached locally. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in Oracle VM VirtualBox 7.2.8. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Core. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). The supported version that is affected is 7.2.8. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle VM VirtualBox executes to compromise Oracle VM VirtualBox. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker and 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 and unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of Oracle VM VirtualBox. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 7.4 (Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H).

The advisory is available at oracle.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-47050 since 05/18/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. Additional levels of successful authentication are needed for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 07/22/2026). This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Virtualization Software

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• Oracle

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• VM VirtualBox

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• 7.2.8

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• open-source (GNU GPLv3)

Website

• Vendor: https://www.oracle.com

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