HashiCorp Vagrant VMware Fusion plugin (aka vagrant-vmware-fusion) before 4.0.24 uses weak permissions for the sudo helper scripts, allows…

published 2017-08-08 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-3351

cvss: 8.8; version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.1%; EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 66%
public exploits: 1; Exploit-DB

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.

Timeline

2017-08-08 Published
2017-12-06 First public exploit (EDB-43224)

Exploit prediction

1.11% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 66% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

EDB-43224 Hashicorp vagrant-vmware-fusion 4.0.23 - Local Privilege Escalation local, 2017-12-06
m4.rkw.io https://m4.rkw.io/blog/cve201711741-local-root-privesc-in-hashicorp-vagrantvmwarefusion--4023.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.0	8.8	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	7.2	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness

CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions

References

exploit-db.com /exploits/43224/
exploit
m4.rkw.io /blog/cve201711741-local-root-privesc-in-hashicorp-vagrantvmwarefusion--4023.html
exploit, third-party-advisory
seclists.org /fulldisclosure/2017/Aug/0
mailing-list, third-party-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2017-11741
NVD CVE-2017-11741

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Summary