CVE-2017-6972

AlienVault USM and OSSIM before 5.3.7 and NfSen before 1.3.8 have an error in privilege dropping and unnecessarily execute the NfSen Perl code as root, aka AlienVault ID ENG-104945, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-6970 and CVE-2017-6971.

CVSS v3.0 NVD

9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0 NVD

10.0 HIGHAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS

14.60% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 97th percentile

Published

2017-03-22

Updated

2024-08-05

ExploitDB entries (1)

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42314

Security advisories

• https://www.alienvault.com/forums/discussion/8698
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97016
• https://sourceforge.net/p/nfsen/news/2017/01/nfsen-138-released---security-fix

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry