What is CVE-2017-12579?

CVE-2017-12579 is a high-severity vulnerability in Hashicorp Vagrant VMware Fusion, classified under Uncontrolled Search Path Element. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2017-10-19.

How severe is CVE-2017-12579?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Hashicorp Vagrant VMware Fusion

CVE-2017-12579

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.

EPSS: 0.015 (71.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Hashicorp Vagrant_vmware_fusion
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-427 — Uncontrolled Search Path Element

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-12579?: CVE-2017-12579 is a high-severity vulnerability in Hashicorp Vagrant VMware Fusion, classified under Uncontrolled Search Path Element. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2017-10-19.
How severe is CVE-2017-12579?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.