VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2017-16777

CVSS score7.8 HIGH
EPSS probability0.98%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2017-11-16
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

If HashiCorp Vagrant VMware Fusion plugin (aka vagrant-vmware-fusion) 5.0.3 is installed but VMware Fusion is not, a local attacker can create a fake application directory and exploit the suid sudo helper in order to escalate to root.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-427: Uncontrolled Search Path Element

Primary references