CVE-2026-71140

Published: Aug 18, 2026Updated: Aug 25, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVDCWE-284

3.4LOW

NVD MITRE

Description

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). The supported version that is affected is 7.2.14. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high 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 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. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 3.4 (Confidentiality and Integrity impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N).

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

Exploitability

AV:LAttack Vector

Local

AC:LAttack Complexity

Low

PR:HPrivileges Required

High

UI:NUser Interaction

None

Scope

S:UScope

Unchanged

Impact

C:LConfidentiality

Low

I:LIntegrity

Low

A:NAvailability

None

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Weaknesses

CWE-284

Affected Products

Oracle Corporation

commercial·USaka oracle, oracle corp.

vm virtualboxOn-premDesktop App

Cloud & SaaS / virtualization

Oracle VM VirtualBoxOn-premDesktop App

Cloud & SaaS / virtualization

Exploitability

Official Patch Available

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References

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cspuaug2026.html

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