What is CVE-2026-47044?

CVE-2026-47044 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Oracle Vm Virtualbox, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2026-07-21.

How severe is CVE-2026-47044?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Oracle Vm Virtualbox

CVE-2026-47044

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). The supported version that is affected is 7.2.12. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle VM VirtualBox executes to compromise Oracle VM VirtualBox. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of Oracle VM VirtualBox. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 5.5 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.001 (1.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Oracle Vm_virtualbox — versions 7.2.12
Oracle Corporation Vm Virtualbox — versions 7.2.12

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

secalert_us@oracle.com (vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-47044?: CVE-2026-47044 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Oracle Vm Virtualbox, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2026-07-21.
How severe is CVE-2026-47044?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.