Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-87285 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-87285 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-87285?
- Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 6, published 15 September 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Oracle Vm Virtualbox 7.2.16.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-87285?
- 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-2026-87285 attacked?
- It is attacked with local access, in a network appliance.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-87285?
- 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 denial-of-service vulnerability in the Core component of Oracle VM VirtualBox version 7.2.16. The vulnerability requires high privilege access (logon to the infrastructure) and local attack vector (AV:L). The root cause is in the Core component's handling of certain operations, which can be triggered without user interaction to cause a hang or repeated crash (complete DoS). Successful exploitation results in unavailability of the VirtualBox instance affecting the hypervisor and potentially guest systems, though no confidentiality or integrity is compromised. Patch availability is not specified in this advisory.
Affected products
- Oracle VM VirtualBox 7.2.16
Timeline
- 2026-09-15: disclosed