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CVE-2017-7642

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-08-02 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-426

Description

The sudo helper in the HashiCorp Vagrant VMware Fusion plugin (aka vagrant-vmware-fusion) before 4.0.21 allows local users to gain root privileges by leveraging failure to verify the path to the encoded ruby script or scrub the PATH variable.

Affected products

• HashiCorp Vagrant Vmware Fusion: through 4.0.20

References

• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Jul/29
• https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant-plugin-changelog/blob/master/vagrant-vmware-changelog.md
• https://m4.rkw.io/blog/cve20177642-local-root-privesc-in-hashicorp-vagrantvmwarefusion--4020.html
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42334/
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Jul/29
• https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant-plugin-changelog/blob/master/vagrant-vmware-changelog.md
• https://m4.rkw.io/blog/cve20177642-local-root-privesc-in-hashicorp-vagrantvmwarefusion--4020.html
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42334/

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