CVE-2023-5834

highpriority · track · 31EPSS 0.002 · 13 %ileDEEUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.22% (13th) EPSS

CVSS 7.8 · high

Is it mine?

3 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

HashiCorp Vagrant's Windows installer targeted a custom location with a non-protected path that could be junctioned, introducing potential for unauthorized file system writes. Fixed in Vagrant 2.4.0.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–high · 3.8–7.8

v3.17.8highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.8 · impact 5.9

v3.13.8lowCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:Nsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.13.8lowCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:Nsecondary · security@hashicorp.comexploitability 2 · impact 1.4

v3.13.8lowCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:Nsecondary · OSV

v3.17.1highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Trackcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-59USprimaryCWE-1386USCWE-1386USCWE-59US

affected products (3)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Vagrant* → 2.4.0enisa_euvdEU
hashicorp vagrant< 2.4.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vagrant:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Go github.com/hashicorp/vagrant< 2.4.0osvUSpkg:golang/github.com/hashicorp/vagrant

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2023-2772Hashicorp Vagrant: Schwachstelle ermöglicht PrivilegieneskalationDeutsch2023-10-29csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein lokaler Angreifer kann eine Schwachstelle in Hashicorp Vagrant ausnutzen, um seine Privilegien zu erhöhen.
GHSA-47xw-vw6m-w9fqHashiCorp Vagrant Insecure Operation on Windows Junction / Mount Point vulnerability2023-10-28ghsa · osvUS
HashiCorp Vagrant's Windows installer targeted a custom location with a non-protected path that could be junctioned, introducing potential for unauthorized file system writes. Fixed in Vagrant 2.4.0.

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd osv cert_bund NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2023-10-27modified 2026-06-17

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references (4)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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