CVE-2020-8655

high

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.

References

https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2020-8655

https://github.com/EyesOfNetworkCommunity/eonconf/issues/8

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/156605/EyesOfNetwork-AutoDiscovery-Target-Command-Execution.html

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/156266/EyesOfNetwork-5.3-Remote-Code-Execution.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-02-07

Updated: 2026-06-17

Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV)

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 9.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

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