CVE-2020-27985

CVSS V2 High 7.2 CVSS V3 High 7.8
Description
Security Onion v2 prior to 2.3.10 has an incorrect sudo configuration, which allows the administrative user to obtain root access without using the sudo password by editing and executing /home/<user>/SecurityOnion/setup/so-setup.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2020-27985
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2020-11-23T14:15:12
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2021-07-21T11:39:23
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-306 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/306.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:securityonionsolutions:security_onion:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 2.0.0 2.3.10
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
  • Access Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Integrity Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Availability Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Base Score
  • 7.2
  • Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 10
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.1
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • LOW
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • HIGH
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 7.8
  • Base Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 1.8
  • Impact Score
  • 5.9
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://github.com/Security-Onion-Solutions/securityonion/commit/b14670030349a2747a00ace665568ab5f51ac47b Patch Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/Security-Onion-Solutions/securityonion/releases Release Notes Third Party Advisory
https://s1gh.sh/cve-2020-27985-security-onion-local-privilege-escalation/ Exploit Patch Third Party Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-27985
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-27985
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 07:04:18 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-05 17:10:37 2020-11-23T14:15Z 2020-11-23T14:15:12 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-05 17:10:37 2021-07-21T11:39:23 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-05 17:10:37 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated