Actively exploited · Published Feb 6, 2020 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2020-8655

High 7.8 Exploited

In plain English

A high-severity privilege mismanagement in EyesOfNetwork from EyesOfNetwork. Attackers are actively exploiting it in the wild (listed by CISA on November 3, 2021). The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 59.9% (higher than 99.1% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: Metasploit. Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.8High

Exploit odds (30 days)59.9%top 0.9% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildYesCISA KEV since Nov 3, 2021

Attack tooling1Metasploit

CISA guidance

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Federal agencies must remediate by May 3, 2022.

Official 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 (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

Weakness: CWE-269 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

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