CVE-2017-12579

PoC ×2—

CVSS 3.0

7.8 high

EPSS

1%p72

Published

Oct 19, 2017 (Oct 19, 2017)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

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.

Vendors: hashicorp
Products: vagrant vmware fusion
Weakness: CWE-427
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (1.5%)

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