CVE-2017-7642
HIGHHashiCorp Vagrant VMware Fusion <4.0.21 - Privilege Escalation
Title source: llmExploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2017-7642. PoCs published by Mark Wadham.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit leverages a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Hashicorp Vagrant VMware Fusion plugin. The suid-root binary executes a Ruby script without validating the PATH, allowing an attacker to hijack the execution flow and gain root access.
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.
Exploits (1)
This exploit leverages a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Hashicorp Vagrant VMware Fusion plugin. The suid-root binary executes a Ruby script without validating the PATH, allowing an attacker to hijack the execution flow and gain root access.
References (4)
Scores
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H