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CVE-2017-6972in critical feed1 exploit

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 c…

Published 9 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
9.8
v3.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
14.6%
percentile 97%
Public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

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.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

14.60% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs.

Exploits and detections

  • EDB-42314 NfSen < 1.3.7 / AlienVault OSSIM 4.3.1 - 'customfmt' Command Injection · webapps · 2017-07-11

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD3.09.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD2.010.0AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-273 Improper Check for Dropped Privileges

References

  • sourceforge.net /p/nfsen/news/2017/01/nfsen-138-released---security-fix/ · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred
  • securityfocus.com /bid/97016 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred
  • exploit-db.com /exploits/42314/ · exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB, x_transferred
  • alienvault.com /forums/discussion/8698 · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred

Sources

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