CVE-2017-11741
HIGHHashiCorp Vagrant VMware Fusion <4.0.24 - Privilege Escalation
Title source: llmExploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2017-11741. PoCs published by Mark Wadham.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit leverages a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Hashicorp's vagrant-vmware-fusion plugin (versions 4.0.22-4.0.23) by overwriting the sudo helper script with arbitrary code, which is then executed as root when a vagrant box is started.
Description
HashiCorp Vagrant VMware Fusion plugin (aka vagrant-vmware-fusion) before 4.0.24 uses weak permissions for the sudo helper scripts, allows local users to execute arbitrary code with root privileges by overwriting one of the scripts.
Exploits (1)
This exploit leverages a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Hashicorp's vagrant-vmware-fusion plugin (versions 4.0.22-4.0.23) by overwriting the sudo helper script with arbitrary code, which is then executed as root when a vagrant box is started.
References (3)
Scores
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H