CVE-2017-16839 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Hashicorp vagrant-vmware-fusion version 5.0.4. This flaw allows a local attacker to gain root privileges on a system if VMware Fusion is not installed. The vulnerability carries a CVSS v3 score of 7.0 (HIGH), indicating a high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, with a low attack complexity. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
5.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vagrant_vmware_fusion:5.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.4 InfoSec Media, 0.1 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.