CVEs-PoC/2017/CVE-2017-7642.md

### [CVE-2017-7642](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7642)
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### Description

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.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Jul/29
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42334/

#### Github
No PoCs found on GitHub currently.