Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-15884

Title: Hashicorp Vagrant Vmware Fusion Path Traversal / LFI

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2017-15884

CWE Category CWE-362

Published Date Oct 31, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 7.0 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.08%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-15884: In HashiCorp Vagrant VMware Fusion plugin (aka vagrant-vmware-fusion) 5.0.0, a local attacker or malware can silently subvert the plugin update process in order to escalate to root privileges.

Impacted Vendors

hashicorp 1

Reference Links

https://m4.rkw.io/blog/cve201715884-local-root-privesc-in-hashicorp-vagrantvmwarefusion-500.html https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43222/ https://m4.rkw.io/blog/cve201715884-local-root-privesc-in-hashicorp-vagrantvmwarefusion-500.html https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43222/

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.0

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Complexity

HIGH

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

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

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.9

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns