CVE-2017-6972

Published: 22/03/2017 Updated: 03/10/2019

CVSS v2 Base Score: 10 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 10

CVSS v3 Base Score: 9.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

VMScore: 1000

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

AlienVault USM and OSSIM prior to 5.3.7 and NfSen prior to 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.

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# Exploit Title: NfSen/AlienVault remote root exploit (command injection in customfmt parameter) # Version: NfSen 136p1, 137 and 137-1~bpo80+1_all Previous versions are also likely to be affected # Version: AlienVault USM/OSSIM < 431 # Date: 2017-07-10 # Vendor Homepage: nfsensourceforgenet/ # Vendor Homepage: wwwalien ...

NfSen version 137 and AlienVault OSSIM version 431 suffer from a customfmt command injection vulnerability ...

CWE-273 https://www.alienvault.com/forums/discussion/8698 https://sourceforge.net/p/nfsen/news/2017/01/nfsen-138-released---security-fix/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97016 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42314/https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42314/

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