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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…
High7.8EPSS 1.2%
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- Updated
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- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.2% · top 31% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (4)
- 20170717 CVE-2017-7642 Local root privesc in Hashicorp vagrant-vmware-fusion <= 4.0.20 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant-plugin-changelog/blob/master/vagrant-vmware-changelog.md (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 42334 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- https://m4.rkw.io/blog/cve20177642-local-root-privesc-in-hashicorp-vagrantvmwarefusion--4020.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
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- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .