CVE-2025-61760 Privilege escalation in Oracle VM VirtualBox

High 7.5 Published 21 Oct 2025 Updated 26 Feb 2026

A low-privileged attacker with local access can compromise Oracle VM VirtualBox, potentially leading to takeover and impact on additional products.

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

What is CVE-2025-61760?

CVE-2025-61760 is a high-severity vulnerability in Oracle Vm Virtualbox, published on 21 Oct 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

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. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows low 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 takeover of Oracle VM VirtualBox. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 7.5 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H).

Weakness: CWE-284

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-61760?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Oracle Vm Virtualbox.

How do I fix CVE-2025-61760?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-61760 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2025-61760 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-61760 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Oracle Vm Virtualbox vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-hwwv-8c2m-jpxg, UBUNTU-CVE-2025-61760.