CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-16873

Published: Mar 29, 2018 | Modified: Oct 03, 2019

CVSS 3.x

7.8

HIGH

Source:

NVD

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS 2.x

7.2 HIGH

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16873
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/.html

It is possible to exploit an unsanitized PATH in the suid binary that ships with vagrant-vmware-fusion 4.0.25 through 5.0.4 in order to escalate to root privileges.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Vagrant_vmware_fusion	Hashicorp	4.0.25 (including)	5.0.4 (including)

References

https://m4.rkw.io/blog/cve201716873-hashicorp-vagrantvmwarefusion-v4025504-local-root.html

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