CVE-2017-12579

moderate-risk
Published 2017-10-19

An insecure suid wrapper binary in the HashiCorp Vagrant VMware Fusion plugin (aka vagrant-vmware-fusion) 4.0.24 and earlier allows a non-root user to obtain a root shell.

Do I need to act?

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1.1% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — moderate exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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1 public exploit available
43223
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
7
CVSS 7.8/10 High
LOCAL / LOW complexity

Affected Products (1)

Affected Vendors

Hashicorp

References (4)

Exploit https://m4.rkw.io/blog/cve201712579-local-root-privesc-in-hashicorp-vagrantvmwar...
Exploit https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43223/
Exploit https://m4.rkw.io/blog/cve201712579-local-root-privesc-in-hashicorp-vagrantvmwar...
Exploit https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43223/
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/ 100
moderate-risk
Severity 24/34 · High
Exploitability 10/34 · Low
Exposure 5/34 · Minimal