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CVE-2017-6972

critical · 9.8

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.

9.8
CVSS
14.6%
EPSS (exploit prob.)
96th
EPSS percentile
2017-03-22
Published

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

Weaknesses

CWE-273

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
alienvaultossim<= 5.3.6
alienvaultunified_security_management<= 5.3.6
nfsennfsen<= 1.3.7

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References

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curl https://evil-db.io/api/v1/cve/CVE-2017-6972