Vulnerability CVE-2017-7642
Published: 2017-08-02   Modified: 2017-08-03

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.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
Hashicorp vagrant-vmware-fusion 4.0.20 Privilege Escalation
Mark Wadham
19.07.2017

Type:

CWE-426

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CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.2/10
10/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
Hashicorp -> Vagrant vmware fusion 

 References:
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Jul/29
https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant-plugin-changelog/blob/master/vagrant-vmware-changelog.md
https://m4.rkw.io/blog/cve20177642-local-root-privesc-in-hashicorp-vagrantvmwarefusion--4020.html
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42334/
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