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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 9.8 Critical

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2017-03-22

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-273

Affected products

• Ossim (Alienvault)
• Unified Security Management (Alienvault)
• Nfsen (Nfsen)

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97016
• https://sourceforge.net/p/nfsen/news/2017/01/nfsen-138-released---security-fix/
• https://www.alienvault.com/forums/discussion/8698
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42314/