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CVE-2017-7642

HIGH · CVSS 7.8 EPSS 1.23% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2017-08-02 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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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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