CVE-2020-27985

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.

Score

CVSS 3.1 7.8 High

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2020-11-23

Last modified

2024-08-04

Weaknesses

CWE-306

Affected products

• Security Onion (Securityonionsolutions)

References

• https://github.com/Security-Onion-Solutions/securityonion/commit/b14670030349a2747a00ace665568ab5f51ac47b
• https://github.com/Security-Onion-Solutions/securityonion/releases
• https://s1gh.sh/cve-2020-27985-security-onion-local-privilege-escalation/