Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-11741

RCE

Title: Hashicorp Vagrant Vmware Fusion RCE

RCE

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2017-11741

CWE Category CWE-276

Published Date Aug 08, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 8.8 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.31%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-11741: HashiCorp Vagrant VMware Fusion plugin (aka vagrant-vmware-fusion) before 4.0.24 uses weak permissions for the sudo helper scripts, allows local users to execute arbitrary code with root privileges by overwriting one of the scripts.

Impacted Vendors

hashicorp 1

Reference Links

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Aug/0 https://m4.rkw.io/blog/cve201711741-local-root-privesc-in-hashicorp-vagrantvmwarefusion--4023.html https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43224/ http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Aug/0 https://m4.rkw.io/blog/cve201711741-local-root-privesc-in-hashicorp-vagrantvmwarefusion--4023.html https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43224/

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

8.8

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

CHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.2

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns