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CVE-2015-8239
The SHA-2 digest support in the sudoers plugin in sudo after 1.8.7 allows local users with write permissions to parts of the called…
High7.0EPSS 0.54%
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- mitre
Description
The SHA-2 digest support in the sudoers plugin in sudo after 1.8.7 allows local users with write permissions to parts of the called command to replace them before it is executed.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.0 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.54% · top 54% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.0.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (5)
- https://www.sudo.ws/repos/sudo/rev/397722cdd7ec (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://www.sudo.ws/repos/sudo/rev/0cd3cc8fa195 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1283635 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20151118 Re: race condition checking digests/checksums in sudoers (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://www.sudo.ws/repos/sudo/rev/24a3d9215c64 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .