CVE-2017-7642

high

Description

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

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

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

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-08-02

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H