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CVE-2020-8655

7.8, high Known exploited

EyesOfNetwork Improper Privilege Management Vulnerability

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CVSS
7.8, high high CVSS v3.1
EPSS, next 30 days
60% higher than 99.1% of scored CVEs
Exploitation
Confirmed in the wild
Published
7 Feb 20206 years ago

Known exploited

CISA added this to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog on 3 Nov 2021. US federal agencies had to remediate by 3 May 2022, a deadline that has passed.

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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.

Details

Vendor
EyesOfNetwork
Product
Eyesofnetwork
Weakness
CWE-269 (opens in a new tab)
Status
Analyzed
Updated
17 Jun 2026
Assigner
cve@mitre.org

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

References 4

Exploit code 3

Other references 1

The kind is read from NVD's tags where present and from the shape of the URL otherwise, so treat it as a hint.

Other EyesOfNetwork CVEs

Every EyesOfNetwork CVE we hold

Same vendor in what we hold, not a known link between the flaws.

  • CVE-2020-8657 EyesOfNetwork Use of Hard-Coded Credentials Vulnerability KEV EPSS 92% 9.8, critical

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Assembled from the NVD 2.0 API, the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and FIRST EPSS. Scores are as of our last collection on 17 Oct 2026, not the live upstream state.