CVE-2017-16873

HIGH

Vagrant-VMware-Fusion <5.0.4 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

It is possible to exploit an unsanitized PATH in the suid binary that ships with vagrant-vmware-fusion 4.0.25 through 5.0.4 in order to escalate to root privileges.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0005
EPSS Percentile 14.8%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (1)
hashicorp/vagrant_vmware_fusion 4.0.25 - 5.0.4
Published Mar 29, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026