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    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.

    Published:Mar 22, 2017
    Last Modified:Apr 20, 2025
    EPS:Mar 22, 2017
    EPSS Score:0.45099
    CVSS Score:9.8

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Alienvault
    Product
    Ossim
    Vendor
    Alienvault
    Product
    Unified Security Management
    Vendor
    Nfsen
    Product
    Nfsen

    Exploits

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

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    No CAPEC recorded yet

    Related CVEs

    CVE-2017-6971 (CVSS 8.8) — AlienVault USM and OSSIM before 5.3.7 and NfSen before 1.3.8 allow remote authenticated users to execute arbit…
    CVE-2017-6970 (CVSS 8.4) — AlienVault USM and OSSIM before 5.3.7 and NfSen before 1.3.8 allow local users to execute arbitrary commands i…
    CVE-2016-7955 (CVSS 9.8) — The logcheck function in session.inc in AlienVault OSSIM before 5.3.1, when an action has been created, and US…
    CVE-2009-3439 (CVSS 6.5) — Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in Open Source Security Information Management (OSSIM) before 2.1.2 all…
    CVE-2009-3440 (CVSS 4.3) — Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Open Source Security Information Management (OSSIM) before 2.1.2 a…
    CVE-2009-3441 (CVSS 5) — Open Source Security Information Management (OSSIM) before 2.1.2 allows remote attackers to bypass authenticat…

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High