Threats / EyesOfNetwork / CVE-2020-8657
CVE-2020-8657
· EUVD no mirror located
· GCVE no mirror located
Verified 2026-06-22
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.
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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
Affected: EyesOfNetwork, EyesOfNetwork. Confirm exact fixed builds in the vendor advisory.
Weakness (CWE)
Mapped to CWE-798 Hard-coded Credentials — weakness family: Authentication.CWE assignment from the public NVD record; the weakness class drives how the flaw is exploited.
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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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