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CVE-2020-8655

HIGH7.8
CISA KEV

Published 2020-02-07 · Updated 2026-06-17 · Source cve@mitre.org

Summary

CVE-2020-8655 is a high-severity (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability in EyesOfNetwork EyesOfNetwork. CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on November 3, 2021, which means exploitation in the wild has been confirmed; US federal agencies had to remediate it by May 3, 2022. CISA does not currently list it as used in ransomware campaigns. EyesOfNetwork has 2 vulnerabilities in the KEV catalog, 0 of them linked to ransomware.

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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.

CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE-269CWE-269

CISA Known-Exploited Vulnerability

Product: EyesOfNetwork — EyesOfNetwork

Name: EyesOfNetwork Improper Privilege Management Vulnerability

Date added: 2021-11-03 · Due: 2022-05-03

Required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.

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