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CVE-2020-8655: EyesOfNetwork Improper Privilege Management Vulnerability

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: yes — in CISA KEV since 2021-11-03
• EPSS: 60.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-02-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-269

Description

An issue was discovered in EyesOfNetwork 5.3. The sudoers configuration is prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability, allowing the apache user to run arbitrary commands as root via a crafted NSE script for nmap 7.

Affected products

• Eyesofnetwork: 5.3-0

References

• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/156266/EyesOfNetwork-5.3-Remote-Code-Execution.html
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/156605/EyesOfNetwork-AutoDiscovery-Target-Command-Execution.html
• https://github.com/EyesOfNetworkCommunity/eonconf/issues/8
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/156266/EyesOfNetwork-5.3-Remote-Code-Execution.html
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/156605/EyesOfNetwork-AutoDiscovery-Target-Command-Execution.html
• https://github.com/EyesOfNetworkCommunity/eonconf/issues/8
• https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2020-8655

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