CVE-2017-7642

EPSS 1.2%

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 products

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public PoCs found — 2

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References

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Jul/29 https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant-plugin-changelog/blob/master/vagrant-vmware-changelog.md https://m4.rkw.io/blog/cve20177642-local-root-privesc-in-hashicorp-vagrantvmwarefusion--4020.html https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42334/