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CVE-2017-15884

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.0 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-10-31 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-362

Description

In HashiCorp Vagrant VMware Fusion plugin (aka vagrant-vmware-fusion) 5.0.0, a local attacker or malware can silently subvert the plugin update process in order to escalate to root privileges.

Affected products

• HashiCorp Vagrant Vmware Fusion: 5.0.0

References

• https://m4.rkw.io/blog/cve201715884-local-root-privesc-in-hashicorp-vagrantvmwarefusion-500.html
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43222/
• https://m4.rkw.io/blog/cve201715884-local-root-privesc-in-hashicorp-vagrantvmwarefusion-500.html
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43222/

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