CVE-2025-53029
VirtualBox vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A vulnerability has been identified in Oracle VM VirtualBox version 7.1.10 (CVE-2025-53029). This vulnerability allows high-privileged attackers with logon access to the infrastructure where Oracle VM VirtualBox executes to compromise the system. The vulnerability was disclosed on July 15, 2025, and affects the Core component of Oracle VM VirtualBox (Oracle Advisory).

Technical details

The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS 3.1 Base Score of 2.3 (Low severity) with the following vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N. This indicates a local attack vector (AV:L), low attack complexity (AC:L), high privileges required (PR:H), no user interaction needed (UI:N), unchanged scope (S:U), low confidentiality impact (C:L), no integrity impact (I:N), and no availability impact (A:N) (NVD).

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized read access to a subset of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data. The impact is limited to confidentiality, with no effects on system integrity or availability (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

Oracle has addressed this vulnerability in the July 2025 Critical Patch Update. Users are strongly recommended to apply the security patches without delay to protect against potential exploitation (Oracle Advisory).

Additional resources


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