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CVE-2017-16873

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-03-29 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

It is possible to exploit an unsanitized PATH in the suid binary that ships with vagrant-vmware-fusion 4.0.25 through 5.0.4 in order to escalate to root privileges.

Affected products

• HashiCorp Vagrant Vmware Fusion: from 4.0.25 through 5.0.4

References

• https://m4.rkw.io/blog/cve201716873-hashicorp-vagrantvmwarefusion-v4025504-local-root.html
• https://m4.rkw.io/blog/cve201716873-hashicorp-vagrantvmwarefusion-v4025504-local-root.html

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