CVE-2020-27985

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-27985
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-27985.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2020-27985
Published
2020-11-23T14:15:12.187Z
Modified
2025-11-14T11:02:55.176723Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/security-onion-solutions/securityonion

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/security-onion-solutions/securityonion
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed

Affected versions

1.*

1.0.4
1.1.3
1.1.4
1.2.1
1.2.1-1
1.3.0
1.4.0
1.4.1

2.*

2.0.0-rc1
2.0.1-rc1
2.0.1-rc1.1
2.1.0-rc2
2.2.0-rc3
2.3.0
2.3.1
2.3.2

v1.*

v1.0.3

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-27985.json"