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CVE-2017-16777

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-11-16 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-427

Description

If HashiCorp Vagrant VMware Fusion plugin (aka vagrant-vmware-fusion) 5.0.3 is installed but VMware Fusion is not, a local attacker can create a fake application directory and exploit the suid sudo helper in order to escalate to root.

Affected products

• HashiCorp Vagrant: 5.0.3

References

• https://m4.rkw.io/blog/cve201716777-local-root-privesc-in-hashicorp-vagrantvmwarefusion-503.html
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43219/
• https://m4.rkw.io/blog/cve201716777-local-root-privesc-in-hashicorp-vagrantvmwarefusion-503.html
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43219/

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