Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in HashiCorp Vagrant VMware Fusion Plugin

Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in HashiCorp Vagrant VMware Fusion Plugin

CVE-2017-16001 · HIGH Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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.

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