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.

CVSS v3.0

7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0

7.2 HIGHAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS

1.23% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 67th percentile

Published

2017-08-02

Updated

2024-08-05

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Jul/29

ExploitDB entries (1)

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42334

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2017-7625
• CVE-2017-7643
• CVE-2017-7622
• CVE-2017-7648
• CVE-2017-7621
• CVE-2017-7650