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High · 8.2 Public exploit CVE-2025-62641 EUVD-2025-35236GHSA-5rmq-jgfj-9ph2

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). Supported versions that are affected are 7.1.…

Published Oct 21, 2025 · Updated Feb 26, 2026 · Assigned by oracle

Vendor: Oracle Product: Oracle VM VirtualBox Package: virtualbox Category: Virtualization Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Description

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).

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Oracle Oracle VM VirtualBox 7.1.12, 7.2.2 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

Ubuntu

Security tracker ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 virtualbox No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS virtualbox No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 virtualbox No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS virtualbox No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS virtualbox No fix yet —
Show 3 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS virtualbox No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS virtualbox No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS virtualbox No fix yet —

Public exploits

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GitHub 1 repository

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Advisories 1

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