CVE-2020-8657 — EyesOfNetwork Use of Hard-Coded Credentials Vulnerability
Overview
EyesOfNetwork contains a use of hard-coded credentials vulnerability, as it uses the same API key by default. Exploitation allows an attacker to calculate or guess the admin access token.
Vulnerability details
- CVE ID
- CVE-2020-8657
- Vulnerability
- EyesOfNetwork Use of Hard-Coded Credentials Vulnerability
- Vendor
- EyesOfNetwork
- Affected products
- EyesOfNetwork: EyesOfNetwork
- Severity
- HIGH
- Exploitation status
- Actively exploited in the wild (CISA KEV)
- Published
- 2021-11-03
Remediation guidance
CVE-2020-8657 is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog — U.S. federal civilian agencies are required to remediate it under Binding Operational Directive 22-01. Treat it as a priority for every environment.
Apply the vendor's official security update for EyesOfNetwork the affected product as soon as possible. Where a patch is unavailable, apply vendor mitigations or isolate/segment exposed systems.
Hunt for indicators of compromise tied to this vulnerability and confirm logging/EDR coverage on affected assets.
Authoritative references
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