EyesOfNetwork Improper Privilege Management Vulnerability

[ Why it matters ]Priority signals

• Exploited in the wild: on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list since 2021-11-03
• EPSS: 60% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (higher than 99% of CVEs)

[ Description ]Official 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: 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.

[ Fixes ]Fixes and patches

CISA required action (US federal deadline 3 May 2022): Apply updates per vendor instructions.

No fix or interim patch is linked from our sources yet. Check the vendor references below and limit exposure of affected systems until a fix is available.

[ References ]References

• packetstormsecurity.com/files/156266/EyesOfNetwork-5.3-Remote-Code-Execution.htmlExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
• packetstormsecurity.com/files/156605/EyesOfNetwork-AutoDiscovery-Target-Command-Executi…ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
• github.com/EyesOfNetworkCommunity/eonconf/issues/8ExploitThird Party Advisory
• www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalogUS Government Resource