CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-7642
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-08-02
- 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-426
Description
The sudo helper in the HashiCorp Vagrant VMware Fusion plugin (aka vagrant-vmware-fusion) before 4.0.21 allows local users to gain root privileges by leveraging failure to verify the path to the encoded ruby script or scrub the PATH variable.
Affected configurations
• hashicorp vagrant vmware fusion (<= 4.0.20)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-426 Untrusted Search Path weakness
References
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Jul/29 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant-plugin-changelog/blob/master/vagrant-vmware-changelog.md Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://m4.rkw.io/blog/cve20177642-local-root-privesc-in-hashicorp-vagrantvmwarefusion--4020.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42334/ Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Jul/29 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant-plugin-changelog/blob/master/vagrant-vmware-changelog.md Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://m4.rkw.io/blog/cve20177642-local-root-privesc-in-hashicorp-vagrantvmwarefusion--4020.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42334/ Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry