CVE-2017-15884

CVE-2017-15884 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in HashiCorp Vagrant VMware Fusion plugin version 5.0.0. A local attacker or malware can silently manipulate the plugin update process to gain root privileges on the affected system. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.0 (High), indicating a high potential impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, with high attack complexity. While not observed in active exploitation (KEV: No), public exploit code (EDB-43222) is available, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.