High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Oct 11, 2022· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2022-42717

Description

An issue was discovered in Hashicorp Packer before 2.3.1. The recommended sudoers configuration for Vagrant on Linux is insecure. If the host has been configured according to this documentation, non-privileged users on the host can leverage a wildcard in the sudoers configuration to execute arbitrary commands as root.

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Affected products

Hashicorp/Vagrant2 versions
cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vagrant:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vagrant:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <2.3.1
- (no CPE)
Hashicorp/Packerdescription
Hashicorp/Packerllm-fuzzy
Range: <2.3.1

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References

github.com/hashicorp/vagrant/pull/12910nvdPatchThird Party Advisory
discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2022-23-vagrant-nfs-sudoers-configuration-allows-for-local-privilege-escalation/45423nvdVendor Advisory
www.vagrantup.com/docs/synced-folders/nfsnvdProduct

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