Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-7642

Title: Hashicorp Vagrant Vmware Fusion

Other

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2017-7642

CWE Category CWE-426

Published Date Aug 02, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 7.8 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.38%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-7642: 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.

Impacted Vendors

hashicorp 1

Reference Links

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Jul/29 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 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42334/ http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Jul/29 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 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42334/

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