High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Nov 23, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2020-27985
CVE-2020-27985
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//SecurityOnion/setup/so-setup.
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Affected products
3- Security Onion/Security Onion v2description
- Range: <2.3.10
- cpe:2.3:a:securityonionsolutions:security_onion:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*Range: >=2.0.0,<2.3.10
Patches
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References
3- github.com/Security-Onion-Solutions/securityonion/commit/b14670030349a2747a00ace665568ab5f51ac47bnvdPatchThird Party Advisory
- s1gh.sh/cve-2020-27985-security-onion-local-privilege-escalation/nvdExploitPatchThird Party Advisory
- github.com/Security-Onion-Solutions/securityonion/releasesnvdRelease NotesThird Party Advisory
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