CVE-2020-8655: EyesOfNetwork Improper Privilege Management Vulnerability

High severity, CVSS 7.8. Actively exploited: in CISA KEV since 2021-11-03. EPSS: 60.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• EyesOfNetwork EyesOfNetwork: version 5.3-0 only

Published 2020-02-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.