Threats / EyesOfNetwork / CVE-2020-8657
CVE-2020-8657
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Verified 2026-08-04
EyesOfNetwork vulnerability
EyesOfNetwork uses hard-coded default API credentials, allowing attackers to derive or predict admin access tokens and gain unauthorized administrative control.
Verdict
Today item — known-exploited.
Hard-coded credentials in EyesOfNetwork enable unauthenticated attackers to obtain administrative API access without valid credentials, leading to full system compromise and data exposure.
CISA KEV Yes · 2021-11-034EPSS 0.91874 (verify live)5CVSS 9.8 (CISA)3CISA SSVC Exploitation: active · Automatable: yes · Impact: total3Exploit Weaponized · public exploit · Metasploit module · nuclei template9
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Is it exploitable?
— the evidence, ranked above the scoreReported exploitation
2 independent public reports of in-the-wild exploitation are cataloged.Distinct reporting sources (vendor, incident response, government); open them for the underlying claims.
Exploited in the wild
Listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2021-11-03).
Probability (EPSS)
EPSS 0.91874 — modeled likelihood of exploitation activity.EPSS is a daily-changing model output — open the source for today's value.
Severity / affected
CVSS 9.8 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H) · Affected: EyesOfNetwork, EyesOfNetwork. Confirm exact fixed builds in the vendor advisory.CVSS — CISA-assigned via the ADP container (CVE.org), version 3.1; the CNA left no metrics, so CISA's own score is used ahead of NVD.
Weakness (CWE)
Mapped to CWE-798 Hard-coded Credentials — weakness family: Authentication.CWE assignment from the public NVD record (may be stale); the weakness class drives how the flaw is exploited.
CISA SSVC (triage disposition)
Exploitation: active · Automatable: yes · Technical Impact: totalCISA's own stakeholder-specific triage inputs, published in the CVE record (CISA Coordinator role). NOTE: this is CISA's three decision points; the final Act/Attend/Track decision also requires a Mission & Well-being input not published here, so no overall decision is asserted.
Currency of the record
CISA added this to its KEV catalog 636 days after the CVE record was published.KEV lag = CISA-KEV dateAdded − CVE.org datePublished; a floor on how long the known-exploited flaw sat in the public record before the federal catalog listed it. Severity/weakness here is CNA- or CISA-assigned (current at disclosure), independent of NVD's analysis backlog.
Public exploit available
Public exploit tooling is catalogued for this CVE (a functional/weaponized public exploit). Catalog entries: Metasploit module, nuclei template. We link the catalog page(s) only — no payload or code is hosted or restated here.Link, never host — the catalog page is the source; basicsecurity.net does not redistribute payloads.
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Who’s exploiting it?
— attribution turns risk into urgencyAttribution not established
No confirmed (advisory-backed) threat-actor attribution is established for this record. Absence of a named actor is not absence of compromise — see Coverage & confidence.
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Why it matters
— the attack path, told twice: adversary, then board1
Front door — unauthenticated access narrative 1
Attacker
I discover the default API key embedded in EyesOfNetwork's codebase or documentation.
Business
Attacker gains immediate administrative access to monitoring infrastructure without authentication.
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Keys to the kingdom — privilege/identity takeover narrative 2
Attacker
I use the known default credentials to derive or predict the admin access token.
Business
Attacker can impersonate administrators and modify system configurations, alerts, and monitoring rules.
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Lateral reach — past segmentation narrative 3
Attacker
I access sensitive monitoring data, network topology, and system metrics stored in EyesOfNetwork.
Business
Confidential infrastructure intelligence is exposed, enabling further targeted attacks on monitored systems.
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Data at risk — exfiltration narrative 4
Attacker
I modify or disable alerts and monitoring rules to hide malicious activity.
Business
Security visibility is compromised, allowing subsequent attacks to proceed undetected.
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Lights out — disruption & extortion narrative 5
Attacker
I pivot from EyesOfNetwork to compromise monitored systems using exposed credentials and topology data.
Business
Enterprise infrastructure suffers widespread compromise with degraded incident detection and response.
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What to do
— defensible action- Remediate per the vendor advisory — confirm the fixed build for your version and verify exposure.1
Say it to the boardA vulnerability with this evidence profile is a defensible budget line, not a backlog ticket — fund the change against the proof above.
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