Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-12579

Title: Hashicorp Vagrant Vmware Fusion

Other

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2017-12579

CWE Category CWE-427

Published Date Oct 19, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 7.8 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.11%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-12579: An insecure suid wrapper binary in the HashiCorp Vagrant VMware Fusion plugin (aka vagrant-vmware-fusion) 4.0.24 and earlier allows a non-root user to obtain a root shell.

Impacted Vendors

hashicorp 1

Reference Links

https://m4.rkw.io/blog/cve201712579-local-root-privesc-in-hashicorp-vagrantvmwarefusion-4024.html https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43223/ https://m4.rkw.io/blog/cve201712579-local-root-privesc-in-hashicorp-vagrantvmwarefusion-4024.html https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43223/

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.8

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/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