CVE-2017-11741

HighCVSS 8.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 8.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-276

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Aug/0Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://m4.rkw.io/blog/cve201711741-local-root-privesc-in-hashicorp-vagrantvmwarefusion--4023.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43224/
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Aug/0Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://m4.rkw.io/blog/cve201711741-local-root-privesc-in-hashicorp-vagrantvmwarefusion--4023.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43224/

Timeline

Published: Aug 8, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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