CVE-2020-8655: EyesOfNetwork Improper Privilege Management Vulnerability

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV)

Description

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.

Required action (CISA)

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Notes

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

Weakness behind it

CISA records this vulnerability as an instance of CWE-269. From there the chain continues into CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques, all inside this corpus.

References

• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-8655
• KEV catalog: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog