# CVE-2020-8655: EyesOfNetwork Improper Privilege Management Vulnerability

> CVE-2020-8655: EyesOfNetwork Improper Privilege Management Vulnerability. CVSS 7.8 (CVSS 3.1), in CISA KEV.

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2020-8655
Last updated: 2025-10-21T23:35:52Z

- Published: 2020-02-06 23:58 UTC · Updated: 2025-10-21 23:35 UTC · Assigner: mitre
- CVSS: 7.8 (CVSS 3.1) · Severity: High · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS: 60.1%, 99th percentile (scored 2026-10-25)
- CISA KEV: yes, added 2021-11-03, federal due date 2022-05-03, ransomware use: Unknown

## 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.

## CISA required action

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

## Affected vendors and products

- EyesOfNetwork: EyesOfNetwork

## References

- [CVE record on cve.org](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-8655)
- [NVD entry](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-8655)
- [http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/156266/EyesOfNetwork-5.3-Remote-Code-Execution.html](http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/156266/EyesOfNetwork-5.3-Remote-Code-Execution.html)
- [http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/156605/EyesOfNetwork-AutoDiscovery-Target-Command-Execution.html](http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/156605/EyesOfNetwork-AutoDiscovery-Target-Command-Execution.html)
- [https://github.com/EyesOfNetworkCommunity/eonconf/issues/8](https://github.com/EyesOfNetworkCommunity/eonconf/issues/8)

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_Sources: CVE records from the CVE Program (cve.org). CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. (https://www.cve.org/) This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. (https://nvd.nist.gov/) Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog from CISA. (https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog) EPSS scores from FIRST (Exploit Prediction Scoring System). (https://www.first.org/epss/)_


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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2020-8655 · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2020-8655.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/cves/CVE-2020-8655 · Data licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) · Generated 2026-10-26T03:09:06.520Z