Hashicorp vagrant-vmware-fusion 5.0.3 Local Privilege Escalation

Another day, another root privesc bug in this plugin. Not quite so serious this time - this one is only exploitable if the user has the plugin installed but VMware Fusion not installed. This is a fairly unlikely scenario but it's a straight to root privesc with no user interaction so isn't the ki...

Hashicorp vagrant-vmware-fusion 5.0.3 - Local Privilege Escalation

Another day, another root privesc bug in this plugin. Not quite so serious this time - this one is only exploitable if the user has the plugin installed but VMware Fusion not installed. This is a fairly unlikely scenario but it's a straight to root privesc with no user interaction so isn't the ki...

Hashicorp vagrant-vmware-fusion 5.0.1 - Local Privilege Escalation

Hashicorp vagrant-vmware-fusion 5.0.1 - Local Privilege Escalation I recently blogged about how the installation process of version 5.0.0 of this plugin could be hihacked by a local attacker or malware in order to escalate privileges to root. Hashicorp pushed some mitigations for this issue fairl...

Hashicorp vagrant-vmware-fusion 4.0.20 Privilege Escalation

CVE-2017-7642 Local root privesc in Hashicorp vagrant-vmware-fusion " - i.e. it doesn't verify the path to the ruby script and it doesn't scrub the PATH variable either. We can easily exploit this to get root. Hashicorp were quick to respond and kindly paid me a small bounty f...

VMWare Workstation On Linux Privilege Escalation

VMWare Workstation on Linux: unprivileged host user - host root privesc via ALSA config CVE-2017-4915 This vulnerability permits an unprivileged user on a Linux machine on which VMWare Workstation is installed to gain root privileges. The issue is that, for VMs with audio, the privileged VM host...

macOS Kernel 10.12.3 (16D32) - audit_pipe_open Off-by-One Memory Corruption Exploit

Exploit for macOS platform in category dos / poc / Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1126 MacOS kernel memory corruption due to off-by-one in auditpipeopen auditpipeopen is the special file open handler for the auditpipe device major number 10. Here's the code:...