CVE-2017-6972 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

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/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

9.8