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CVE-2020-8655: EyesOfNetwork Improper Privilege Management Vulnerability

criticalknown exploitedpublic exploitCVE-2020-8655
Actively exploited. At least one CVE in this advisory is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog — exploitation has been observed in the wild. Treat remediation as urgent.
EyesOfNetwork contains an improper privilege management vulnerability that may allow a user to run commands as root via a crafted Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE) script to nmap7.

CSIRTS triage

vendor: EyesOfNetworkproduct: EyesOfNetworkPrivilege escalation
What
EyesOfNetwork contains an improper privilege management vulnerability.
Who is affected
Users of EyesOfNetwork are at risk of privilege escalation.
Urgency
This critical vulnerability is being exploited, necessitating immediate action.
Action
Apply the latest security updates for EyesOfNetwork.

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Details

Source
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (US · database · site)
Severity
critical
Published
2021-11-03
Exploitation
Observed in the wild (CISA KEV)

Original advisory: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-8655

Exploitation outlook

EPSS (FIRST.org) estimates each CVE’s probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — here is the CSIRTS.com read on those numbers.

Referenced CVEs

CVECSIRTS overviewExternal
CVE-2020-8655coverage & exploitation statusNVD · CVE.org

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