High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Oct 19, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026

CVE-2017-12579

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.

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.

References

m4.rkw.io/blog/cve201712579-local-root-privesc-in-hashicorp-vagrantvmwarefusion-4024.htmlnvdExploitThird Party Advisory
www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43223/nvdExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

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