CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-27985
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-11-23
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-306
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.
Affected configurations
• securityonionsolutions security onion (>= 2.0.0 < 2.3.10)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-306 Missing Authentication for Critical Functionality weakness
References
- 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
- 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