CVE-2017-6972
First published: Wed Mar 22 2017(Updated: )
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.
Credit: cve@mitre.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| AlienVault OSSIM | <=5.3.6 | |
| AlienVault Unified Security Management | <=5.3.6 | |
| Nfsen Nfsen | <=1.3.7 |
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Reference Links
- collector/nvd-index
- vendor/alienvault
- canonical/alienvault ossim
- version/alienvault ossim/5.3.6
- canonical/alienvault unified security management
- version/alienvault unified security management/5.3.6
- vendor/nfsen
- canonical/nfsen nfsen
- version/nfsen nfsen/1.3.7