CVE-2017-7642

High

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.

SeverityHigh
CVSS7.8
Exploit probability—
ProductHashicorp Vagrant Vmware Fusion
PublishedAug 2, 2017
First seenAug 2, 2017

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
hashicorp vagrant_vmware_fusionv ≤ 4.0.20—

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