CVE-2020-8657

State: Published
Severity: 9.8 Critical
Published: Feb 6, 2020
Updated: Oct 21, 2025
Reserved: Feb 6, 2020

Description

An issue was discovered in EyesOfNetwork 5.3. The installation uses the same API key (hardcoded as EONAPI_KEY in include/api_functions.php for API version 2.4.2) by default for all installations, hence allowing an attacker to calculate/guess the admin access token.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	9.8 Critical	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-798 Use of Hard-coded Credentials

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://github.com/EyesOfNetworkCommunity/eonapi/issues/17
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/156605/EyesOfNetwork-AutoDiscovery-Target-Command-Execution.html
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2020-8657government-resource

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