CVE-2017-16777: Hashicorp Vagrant

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Hashicorp Vagrant: version 5.0.3 only

Published 2017-11-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.