CVE-2017-7642

7.8HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor
Hashicorp
Status
Vagrant Vmware Fusion
Vendor
CVE Published:
2 August 2017

Summary

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.

References

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Jul/29
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https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant-plugin-changelog/blo...
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https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42334/
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.8
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Local
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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