Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2017-6972 First vendor Publication 2017-03-22
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2019-10-03

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Overall CVSS Score 9.8
Base Score 9.8 Environmental Score 9.8
impact SubScore 5.9 Temporal Score 9.8
Exploitabality Sub Score 3.9
 
Attack Vector Network Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged Confidentiality Impact High
Integrity Impact High Availability Impact High
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 10 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

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.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-6972

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-273 Improper Check for Dropped Privileges

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 4
Application 1

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
BID http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97016
CONFIRM https://sourceforge.net/p/nfsen/news/2017/01/nfsen-138-released---security-fix/
https://www.alienvault.com/forums/discussion/8698
EXPLOIT-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42314/

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Date Informations
2021-05-05 01:26:54
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2021-05-04 13:04:19
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2021-04-22 02:17:48
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2020-05-23 02:08:19
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2020-05-23 01:03:28
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2019-10-03 09:20:31
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2017-07-12 09:22:57
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2017-03-28 21:22:23
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2017-03-25 09:21:48
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2017-03-23 00:23:34
  • First insertion