CVE-2017-6972 | BDVDB-2026-83057 Detail

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.

Impact#

No impact statement in the source data.

Weaknesses#

No weakness recorded in the source data.

References#

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

Exploit#

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

History#

Version 12017-03-22Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22024-08-05Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.