In HashiCorp Vagrant VMware Fusion plugin (aka vagrant-vmware-fusion) 5.0.0, a local attacker or malware can silently subvert the plugin update process in order to escalate to root privileges.
Advisories
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-7303 In HashiCorp Vagrant VMware Fusion plugin (aka vagrant-vmware-fusion) 5.0.0, a local attacker or malware can silently subvert the plugin update process in order to escalate to root privileges.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T20:04:50.409Z

Reserved: 2017-10-25T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-15884

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-10-31T18:29:00.390

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2017-15884

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