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.
References
Link | Resource |
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http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Jul/29 | Exploit Mailing List Third Party Advisory |
https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant-plugin-changelog/blob/master/vagrant-vmware-changelog.md | Release Notes Third Party Advisory |
https://m4.rkw.io/blog/cve20177642-local-root-privesc-in-hashicorp-vagrantvmwarefusion--4020.html | Exploit Third Party Advisory |
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42334/ | Third Party Advisory VDB Entry |
History
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2017-08-02T19:00:00
Updated: 2017-08-11T15:57:01
Reserved: 2017-04-10T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2017-7642
JSON object: View
NVD Information
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2017-08-02T19:29:00.867
Modified: 2019-10-03T00:03:26.223
Link: CVE-2017-7642
JSON object: View
Redhat Information
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CWE