CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-16001
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-11-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-362
Description
In HashiCorp Vagrant VMware Fusion plugin (aka vagrant-vmware-fusion) 5.0.1, a local attacker or malware can silently subvert the plugin update process in order to escalate to root privileges.
Affected configurations
• hashicorp vagrant 5.0.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness
References
- https://m4.rkw.io/blog/cve201716001-local-root-privesc-in-hashicorp-vagrantvmwarefusion-501.html Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43220/ www.exploit-db.com
- https://m4.rkw.io/blog/cve201716001-local-root-privesc-in-hashicorp-vagrantvmwarefusion-501.html Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43220/ www.exploit-db.com