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.
References
Link | Resource |
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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97016 | Third Party Advisory VDB Entry |
https://sourceforge.net/p/nfsen/news/2017/01/nfsen-138-released---security-fix/ | Third Party Advisory |
https://www.alienvault.com/forums/discussion/8698 | Vendor Advisory |
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42314/ |
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2017-03-22T20:00:00
Updated: 2017-07-11T12:57:01
Reserved: 2017-03-17T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2017-6972
JSON object: View
NVD Information
Status : Modified
Published: 2017-03-22T20:59:00.143
Modified: 2019-10-03T00:03:26.223
Link: CVE-2017-6972
JSON object: View
Redhat Information
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CWE