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CVE-2017-12579

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-10-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-427

Description

An insecure suid wrapper binary in the HashiCorp Vagrant VMware Fusion plugin (aka vagrant-vmware-fusion) 4.0.24 and earlier allows a non-root user to obtain a root shell.

Affected products

• HashiCorp Vagrant Vmware Fusion: through 4.0.24

References

• https://m4.rkw.io/blog/cve201712579-local-root-privesc-in-hashicorp-vagrantvmwarefusion-4024.html
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43223/
• https://m4.rkw.io/blog/cve201712579-local-root-privesc-in-hashicorp-vagrantvmwarefusion-4024.html
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43223/

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