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High · 7.8 Known exploited Public exploit CVE-2020-8655 EUVD-2020-29503GHSA-qhg6-px34-g7qc

An issue was discovered in EyesOfNetwork 5.3. The sudoers configuration is prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability, allowing the apac…

Published Feb 6, 2020 · Updated Oct 21, 2025 · Assigned by mitre

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.

Public exploits

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Metasploit 1 module

Exploit-DB 2

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