Privilege Escalation in HashiCorp Vagrant VMware Fusion Plugin

CVE-2017-7642 · HIGH Severity

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

The sudo helper in the HashiCorp Vagrant VMware Fusion plugin (aka vagrant-vmware-fusion) before 4.0.21 allows local users to gain root privileges by leveraging failure to verify the path to the encoded ruby script or scrub the PATH variable.

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