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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

Published Nov 16, 2017

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.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-427

References (2)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Nov 16, 2017
Updated Aug 5, 2024
Reserved Nov 10, 2017
Link CVE-2017-16777
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Link CVE-2017-16777
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
Links CVE-2017-16777