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CVE-2017-6972

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 14.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-03-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-273

Description

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.

Affected products

• Alienvault Ossim: through 5.3.6
• Alienvault Unified Security Management: through 5.3.6
• Nfsen: through 1.3.7

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/
• 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/

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