Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in EyesOfNetwork - CVE-2020-8655
Published: March 3, 2020 / Updated: February 20, 2022
Vulnerability identifier: #VU25739
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-8655
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
The vulnerability is being exploited in the wild
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to improper privilege management in the sudoers configuration. A remote apache user can run arbitrary commands as root via a crafted NSE script for nmap 7.
Affected software
EyesOfNetwork
How to mitigate CVE-2020-8655
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.