CyberRota Analysis
This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.0. It affects VMware, VMWare. Public exploit code or proof-of-concept references have been detected in its references.
Public Exploit Signal
A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.
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CVE
CVE-2017-15884
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7
EPSS
0.90%
VMware VMWare
Original NVD Description
In HashiCorp Vagrant VMware Fusion plugin (aka vagrant-vmware-fusion) 5.0.0, a local attacker or malware can silently subvert the plugin update process in order to escalate to root privileges.
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