Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-87274 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-87274 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-87274?
- Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 4.4, published 15 September 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Oracle Vm Virtualbox 7.2.16.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-87274?
- 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-2026-87274 attacked?
- It is attacked with local access.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-87274?
- Check whether you run Oracle Vm 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
This is a difficult-to-exploit denial-of-service vulnerability in the Core component of Oracle VM VirtualBox 7.2.16. The vulnerability requires a low-privileged attacker with local logon access to the infrastructure running VirtualBox, and successful exploitation requires human interaction from another user. An attacker can cause the VirtualBox process to hang or crash repeatedly, resulting in complete denial of service with no compromise of confidentiality or integrity. The attack vector is local (LV:L) with high complexity (AC:H) and requires user interaction (UI:R).
Affected products
- Oracle VM VirtualBox 7.2.16
Timeline
- 2026-09-15: disclosed