CVE-2017-6972
Published Mar 22, 2017
Last updated 5 years ago
Overview
- 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.
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- NVD status
- Modified
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Risk scores
CVSS 3.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 9.8
- Impact score
- 5.9
- Exploitability score
- 3.9
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Severity
- CRITICAL
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 10
- Impact score
- 10
- Exploitability score
- 10
- Vector string
- AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-273
Configurations
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{
"nodes": [
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:alienvault:ossim:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "8575A1F6-440A-4F4C-9B25-B520FEAF24CD",
"versionEndIncluding": "5.3.6"
},
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:alienvault:unified_security_management:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "985A4D08-AB7C-4A58-9308-672333271505",
"versionEndIncluding": "5.3.6"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
},
{
"nodes": [
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:nfsen:nfsen:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "689759A5-360A-4049-8927-C748E418CFB4",
"versionEndIncluding": "1.3.7"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
]