CVE-2015-8239: Sudo Project Sudo

High severity, CVSS 7.0. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Sudo Project Sudo: version 1.8.8 only; version 1.8.9 only; version 1.8.10 only; version 1.8.11 only; version 1.8.12 only; version 1.8.13 only; …

Published 2017-10-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.