CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-16873
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-03-29
- 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
Description
It is possible to exploit an unsanitized PATH in the suid binary that ships with vagrant-vmware-fusion 4.0.25 through 5.0.4 in order to escalate to root privileges.
Affected configurations
• hashicorp vagrant vmware fusion (>= 4.0.25 <= 5.0.4)
References
- https://m4.rkw.io/blog/cve201716873-hashicorp-vagrantvmwarefusion-v4025504-local-root.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://m4.rkw.io/blog/cve201716873-hashicorp-vagrantvmwarefusion-v4025504-local-root.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory