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CVE
CVE-2017-7642
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.8
EPSS
1.23%
VMware VMWare
Original NVD Description
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.
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