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CVE-2017-11741

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-08-08 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-276

Description

HashiCorp Vagrant VMware Fusion plugin (aka vagrant-vmware-fusion) before 4.0.24 uses weak permissions for the sudo helper scripts, allows local users to execute arbitrary code with root privileges by overwriting one of the scripts.

Affected products

• HashiCorp Vagrant Vmware Fusion: through 4.0.23

References

• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Aug/0
• https://m4.rkw.io/blog/cve201711741-local-root-privesc-in-hashicorp-vagrantvmwarefusion--4023.html
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43224/
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Aug/0
• https://m4.rkw.io/blog/cve201711741-local-root-privesc-in-hashicorp-vagrantvmwarefusion--4023.html
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43224/

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