CVE-2017-6972

9.8 criticalEPSS 15%

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

9.8 critical

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

EPSS: 15% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 96% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-273
Published: 2017-03-22
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

alienvault:ossim
alienvault:unified_security_management
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/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97016

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