Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-60158 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-60158 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-60158?
- Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 6.4, published 21 July 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Oracle VirtualBox 7.2.12.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-60158?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-2026-60158 attacked?
- It is attacked with local access, in a network appliance.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-60158?
- Check whether you run Oracle VirtualBox at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
A vulnerability in the Core component of Oracle VM VirtualBox (specifically version 7.2.12) allows a low-privileged attacker with local logon access to the host infrastructure to compromise the application. The exploit is characterized as difficult to perform (High Attack Complexity) but results in a scope change, meaning the impact can extend beyond VirtualBox to the underlying host or other virtualized products. Successful exploitation enables the unauthorized creation, deletion, or modification of critical data and can cause a partial denial of service. The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-60158 and was addressed in the Oracle July 2026 Critical Patch Update.
Affected products
- Oracle VM VirtualBox 7.2.12
Timeline
- 2026-07-21: disclosed
- 2026-07-21: advisory: Oracle July 2026 Critical Patch Update released.