CVE-2017-7642 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the HashiCorp Vagrant VMware Fusion plugin (vagrant-vmware-fusion) versions prior to 4.0.21. This flaw allows a local attacker to gain root privileges due to the sudo helper failing to properly verify the path to an encoded Ruby script or adequately sanitize the PATH environment variable. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and can lead to full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed on the KEV catalog or Hot List, an exploit (EDB-42334) is publicly available, though there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 4.0.20CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vagrant_vmware_fusion:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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