CVE-2017-12579

published 2017-10-19

CVE-2017-12579: An insecure suid wrapper binary in the HashiCorp Vagrant VMware Fusion plugin (aka vagrant-vmware-fusion) 4.0.24 and earlier allows a non-root user to obtain a…

Priority P3 44 high 7.8 CVSS 3.0

AV L AC L PR L UI N S U C H I H A H

EXPLOIT

An insecure suid wrapper binary in the HashiCorp Vagrant VMware Fusion plugin (aka vagrant-vmware-fusion) 4.0.24 and earlier allows a non-root user to obtain a root shell.

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
hashicorp	vagrant_vmware_fusion	<= 4.0.24	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.0 7.8 HIGH CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 7.2 HIGH AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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