secgen's VM build process fails with "hostonlyif" message

[Tigershark2005-zz]

I am able to build a default scenario and save it to a folder as expected. The build fails with the following:

milk@Ubutarget:~/SecGen$ sudo ruby secgen.rb -p projects/SecGen20220617_055954 v
WARNING: Nokogiri was built against libxml version 2.9.14, but has dynamically loaded 2.9.10
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SecGen - Creates virtualised security scenarios
            Licensed GPLv3 2014-22
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Relative path to project detected
Using /home/milk/SecGen/projects/SecGen20220617_055954
Building project: /home/milk/SecGen/projects/SecGen20220617_055954
Loading vagrant (up) in /home/milk/SecGen/projects/SecGen20220617_055954
Bringing machine 'escalation' up with 'virtualbox' provider...
==> escalation: Importing base box 'modules_bases_debian_stretch_server'...
==> escalation: Matching MAC address for NAT networking...
==> escalation: Setting the name of the VM: SecGen20220617_055954_escalation_1655446585628_80840
==> escalation: Clearing any previously set network interfaces...
There was an error while executing `VBoxManage`, a CLI used by Vagrant
for controlling VirtualBox. The command and stderr is shown below.

Command: ["hostonlyif", "ipconfig", "vboxnet3", "--ip", "172.28.128.1", "--netmask", "255.255.255.0"]

Stderr: VBoxManage: error: Code E_ACCESSDENIED (0x80070005) - Access denied (extended info not available)
VBoxManage: error: Context: "EnableStaticIPConfig(Bstr(pszIp).raw(), Bstr(pszNetmask).raw())" at line 242 of file VBoxManageHostonly.cpp

Non-zero exit status...
Error provisioning VMs, destroying VMs and exiting SecGen.
Loading vagrant (destroy -f) in /home/milk/SecGen/projects/SecGen20220617_055954
==> escalation: Destroying VM and associated drives...