Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-16777

Title: Hashicorp Vagrant

Other

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2017-16777

CWE Category CWE-427

Published Date Nov 16, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 7.8 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.09%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-16777: If HashiCorp Vagrant VMware Fusion plugin (aka vagrant-vmware-fusion) 5.0.3 is installed but VMware Fusion is not, a local attacker can create a fake application directory and exploit the suid sudo helper in order to escalate to root.

Impacted Vendors

hashicorp 1

vagrant_project 1

Reference Links

https://m4.rkw.io/blog/cve201716777-local-root-privesc-in-hashicorp-vagrantvmwarefusion-503.html https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43219/ https://m4.rkw.io/blog/cve201716777-local-root-privesc-in-hashicorp-vagrantvmwarefusion-503.html https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43219/

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