CVE-2017-7642

2017-08-0219:00:00

mitre

www.cve.org

AI Score

7.7

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

26.8%

JSON

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.

References

seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Jul/29

github.com/hashicorp/vagrant-plugin-changelog/blob/master/vagrant-vmware-changelog.md

m4.rkw.io/blog/cve20177642-local-root-privesc-in-hashicorp-vagrantvmwarefusion--4020.html

www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42334/