Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-87280 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-87280 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-87280?
- Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 4.2, published 15 September 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Oracle Vm Virtualbox 7.2.16.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-87280?
- 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-2026-87280 attacked?
- It is attacked with local access, in a network appliance.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-87280?
- 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
A denial of service vulnerability exists in the Core component of Oracle VM VirtualBox version 7.2.16. The vulnerability is easily exploitable and requires high privileges (administrative/root access) and user interaction from a different user than the attacker. The attack vector is local, targeting the infrastructure where VirtualBox is running. Successful exploitation results in a hang or repeated crash of the VirtualBox process, causing complete unavailability of all virtual machines hosted on that system. Patch availability has not been confirmed in the advisory.
Affected products
- Oracle VM VirtualBox 7.2.16
Timeline
- 2026-09-15: disclosed
- other: CVE-2026-87280 assigned