CVE-2017-7642

CVSS V2 High 7.2 CVSS V3 High 7.8
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2017-7642
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2017-08-02T19:29:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2019-10-03T00:03:26
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-426 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/426.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vagrant_vmware_fusion:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 4.0.20
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
  • Access Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Integrity Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Availability Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Base Score
  • 7.2
  • Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 10
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • LOW
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • HIGH
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 7.8
  • Base Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 1.8
  • Impact Score
  • 5.9
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://m4.rkw.io/blog/cve20177642-local-root-privesc-in-hashicorp-vagrantvmwarefusion--4020.html Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant-plugin-changelog/blob/master/vagrant-vmware-changelog.md Release Notes Third Party Advisory
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Jul/29 Exploit Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42334/ Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7642
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7642
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 17:28:05 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-02 19:18:53 2017-08-02T19:29Z 2017-08-02T19:29:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-02 19:18:53 2019-10-03T00:03:26 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-02 19:18:53 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated