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CVE-2017-7642

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.

Published

2017-08-02T19:29:00.867

Last Modified

2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.0: 7.8 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Access Vector: LOCAL
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: COMPLETE
Integrity Impact: COMPLETE
Availability Impact: COMPLETE

Exploitability Score

3.9

Impact Score

10.0

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-426

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	hashicorp	vagrant_vmware_fusion	≤ 4.0.20	Yes

References

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Jul/29 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant-plugin-changelog/blob/master/vagrant-vmware-changelog.md Release Notes, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://m4.rkw.io/blog/cve20177642-local-root-privesc-in-hashicorp-vagrantvmwarefusion--4020.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42334/ Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Jul/29 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant-plugin-changelog/blob/master/vagrant-vmware-changelog.md Release Notes, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://m4.rkw.io/blog/cve20177642-local-root-privesc-in-hashicorp-vagrantvmwarefusion--4020.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42334/ Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)