CVE-2025-61759 Privilege escalation in Oracle VM VirtualBox

Medium 6.5 Published 21 Oct 2025 Updated 22 Oct 2025

A low-privileged attacker with local access can escalate privileges to read critical data from Oracle VM VirtualBox.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Any signed-in user
Attackable: Local or same network only
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: None listed

What is CVE-2025-61759?

CVE-2025-61759 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Oracle Vm Virtualbox, published on 21 Oct 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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 low 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 access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 6.5 (Confidentiality impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N).

Weakness: CWE-269

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-61759?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Oracle Vm Virtualbox.

How do I fix CVE-2025-61759?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-61759 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2025-61759 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-61759 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as GHSA-jrjr-vf29-9976, UBUNTU-CVE-2025-61759.