What is CVE-2017-11741?

CVE-2017-11741 is a high-severity vulnerability in Hashicorp Vagrant VMware Fusion, classified under Incorrect Default Permissions. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2017-08-08.

How severe is CVE-2017-11741?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Hashicorp Vagrant VMware Fusion

CVE-2017-11741

HashiCorp Vagrant VMware Fusion plugin (aka vagrant-vmware-fusion) before 4.0.24 uses weak permissions for the sudo helper scripts, allows local users to execute arbitrary code with root privileges by overwriting one of the scripts.

EPSS: 0.011 (62.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Hashicorp Vagrant_vmware_fusion
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-276 — Incorrect Default Permissions

References

cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_FULLDISC, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-11741?: CVE-2017-11741 is a high-severity vulnerability in Hashicorp Vagrant VMware Fusion, classified under Incorrect Default Permissions. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2017-08-08.
How severe is CVE-2017-11741?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.