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CVE-2015-8239

high

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.

References

https://www.sudo.ws/repos/sudo/rev/397722cdd7ec

https://www.sudo.ws/repos/sudo/rev/24a3d9215c64

https://www.sudo.ws/repos/sudo/rev/0cd3cc8fa195

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1283635

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/18/22

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-10-10

Updated: 2025-04-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00876