{
    "id": "CVE-2017-7642",
    "published": "2017-08-02 19:29:00",
    "last_modified": "2026-06-17 01:24:52",
    "cvss_score": "7.8",
    "cvss_severity": "HIGH",
    "cvss_version": "3.0",
    "cvss_vector": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
    "cwe": "CWE-426",
    "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.",
    "epss_score": "0.01229",
    "epss_percentile": "0.68087",
    "kev": 0,
    "kev_due": null,
    "has_exploit": 1,
    "updated_at": "2026-10-11 18:17:16",
    "priority": {
        "rank": 2,
        "label": "Patch early",
        "why": "A public exploit exists."
    },
    "products": [
        {
            "vendor": "hashicorp",
            "product": "vagrant_vmware_fusion"
        }
    ],
    "kev_detail": null,
    "exploits": [
        {
            "source": "exploit-db",
            "ref_id": "42334",
            "title": "Hashicorp vagrant-vmware-fusion < 4.0.20 - Local Privilege Escalation",
            "date": "2017-07-18",
            "url": "https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42334"
        }
    ],
    "refs_list": [
        "http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Jul/29",
        "https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant-plugin-changelog/blob/master/vagrant-vmware-changelog.md",
        "https://m4.rkw.io/blog/cve20177642-local-root-privesc-in-hashicorp-vagrantvmwarefusion--4020.html",
        "https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42334/",
        "http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Jul/29",
        "https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant-plugin-changelog/blob/master/vagrant-vmware-changelog.md",
        "https://m4.rkw.io/blog/cve20177642-local-root-privesc-in-hashicorp-vagrantvmwarefusion--4020.html",
        "https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42334/"
    ]
}