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CVE-2017-7642
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-08-02T19:29:00.867 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:24:52.040

Summary

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.

Affected products

hashicorp — vagrant_vmware_fusion

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