Virtualbox stopped seeing USB devices

Yesterday I tried to access an USB key from a w10 guest but all I get is the “no usb device detected” message.
There was an issue like this for TW that appears to be fixed 1222186 – VirtualBox not allowed to access USB devices although user is in vboxusers group but none for Leap.
I’ve checked the simpler things (user in vboxusers group, various VM USB configurations, /dev/vboxusb/ permissions, glibc version, contents of /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/60-vboxdrv.rules, etc.) but to no avail.
Also downgraded virtualbox from version 7.0.14 to 7.0.12, to no effect.

# ls -l /dev/vboxusb
total 0
drwxr-x--- 2 root vboxusers 60 abr 16 13:10 001
drw-rw---- 2 root vboxusers 80 abr 16 13:05 003

Upon downgrading with Yast to 7.0.12 some packages for 7.0.14 remained:

~> LANG=C zypper se -si virtualbox
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...

S  | Name                   | Type    | Version                                   | Arch   | Repository
---+------------------------+---------+-------------------------------------------+--------+-------------------------------------
i+ | virtualbox             | package | 7.0.12-lp155.2.13.1                       | x86_64 | Repositório principal de atualização
i  | virtualbox-kmp-default | package | 7.0.14_k5.14.21_150500.55.52-lp155.2.19.1 | x86_64 | Repositório principal de atualização
i  | virtualbox-kmp-default | package | 7.0.12_k5.14.21_150500.55.31-lp155.2.13.1 | x86_64 | Repositório principal de atualização
i  | virtualbox-qt          | package | 7.0.14-lp155.2.19.1                       | x86_64 | Repositório principal de atualização
i  | virtualbox-websrv      | package | 7.0.12-lp155.2.13.1                       | x86_64 | Repositório principal de atualização
~>

But removing them made no difference:

~> LANG=C zypper se -si virtualbox
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...

S  | Name                   | Type    | Version                                   | Arch   | Repository
---+------------------------+---------+-------------------------------------------+--------+-------------------------------------
i+ | virtualbox             | package | 7.0.12-lp155.2.13.1                       | x86_64 | Repositório principal de atualização
i  | virtualbox-kmp-default | package | 7.0.12_k5.14.21_150500.55.31-lp155.2.13.1 | x86_64 | Repositório principal de atualização
i+ | virtualbox-qt          | package | 7.0.12-lp155.2.13.1                       | x86_64 | Repositório principal de atualização
i  | virtualbox-websrv      | package | 7.0.12-lp155.2.13.1                       | x86_64 | Repositório principal de atualização
~> 

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Related to: USB not enumerated in Virtualbox on Leap 15.5 - #4 by nickmic ?

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Missed that, thanks!

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