High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Oct 19, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2017-12579
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.
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Affected products
3<=4.0.24+ 2 more
- (no CPE)range: <=4.0.24
- cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vagrant_vmware_fusion:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <=4.0.24
- (no CPE)range: <=4.0.24
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
2- 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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