Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-8239

Title: Sudo Project Sudo Path Traversal / LFI

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2015-8239

CWE Category CWE-362

Published Date Oct 10, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 7.0 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.54%

Vulnerability Summary

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 command to replace them before it is executed.

Impacted Vendors

sudo_project 1

gratisoft 1

todd_miller 1

Reference Links

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/18/22 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1283635 https://www.sudo.ws/repos/sudo/rev/0cd3cc8fa195 https://www.sudo.ws/repos/sudo/rev/24a3d9215c64 https://www.sudo.ws/repos/sudo/rev/397722cdd7ec http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/18/22 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1283635 https://www.sudo.ws/repos/sudo/rev/0cd3cc8fa195 https://www.sudo.ws/repos/sudo/rev/24a3d9215c64 https://www.sudo.ws/repos/sudo/rev/397722cdd7ec

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.0

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Complexity

HIGH

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

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

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.9

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns