Hashicorp Vagrant VMware Fusion Plugin 5.0.3 access control

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Hashicorp Vagrant VMware Fusion Plugin 5.0.3. It has been declared as critical. The impacted element is an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to access control. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2017-16777. The attack needs to be performed locally. Additionally, an exploit exists.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Hashicorp Vagrant VMware Fusion Plugin 5.0.3. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-264. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

If HashiCorp Vagrant VMware Fusion plugin (aka vagrant-vmware-fusion) 5.0.3 is installed but VMware Fusion is not, a local attacker can create a fake application directory and exploit the suid sudo helper in order to escalate to root.

The bug was discovered 11/15/2017. The weakness was released 11/16/2017 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at m4.rkw.io. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2017-16777 since 11/10/2017. The attack needs to be approached locally. Required for exploitation is a simple 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 available 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 1 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 (43219). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Access control
CWE: CWE-264
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Timelineinfo

11/10/2017 🔍
11/15/2017 +5 days 🔍
11/16/2017 +1 days 🔍
11/16/2017 +0 days 🔍
11/17/2017 +1 days 🔍
01/21/2025 +2622 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: m4.rkw.io
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2017-16777 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2017-16777
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-109556
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013

Entryinfo

Created: 11/17/2017 09:35
Updated: 01/21/2025 17:28
Changes: 11/17/2017 09:35 (57), 12/07/2019 16:49 (4), 01/21/2025 17:28 (18)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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