7.8
CVSSv3

CVE-2017-16777

Published: 16/11/2017 Updated: 03/10/2019
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.2 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 1.8
VMScore: 725
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

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.

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hashicorp vagrant 5.0.3

Exploits

# Another day, another root privesc bug in this plugin Not quite so serious this # time - this one is only exploitable if the user has the plugin installed but # VMware Fusion *not* installed This is a fairly unlikely scenario but it's a # straight to root privesc with no user interaction so isn't the kind of thing # that should be shipping with ...