A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Hashicorp Vagrant VMware Fusion Plugin 5.0.1. Affected is some unknown processing of the component Plugin Update Process. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-264. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

In HashiCorp Vagrant VMware Fusion plugin (aka vagrant-vmware-fusion) 5.0.1, a local attacker or malware can silently subvert the plugin update process in order to escalate to root privileges.

The bug was discovered 11/03/2017. The weakness was shared 11/06/2017 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at m4.rkw.io. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2017-16001 since 10/29/2017. The attack needs to be approached locally. Required for exploitation is a authentication. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

The exploit is shared for download at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 3 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Exploit-DB (43220).

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• Hashicorp

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• Vagrant VMware Fusion Plugin

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• 5.0.1

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• open-source

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