Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-6972 - Improper Check for Dropped Privileges vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 9.8 - CRITICAL
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
HIGH
network
low complexity
alienvault
nfsen
CWE-273
critical
exploit available

Summary

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.

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Exploit-Db

descriptionNfSen < 1.3.7 / AlienVault OSSIM 4.3.1 - 'customfmt' Command Injection. CVE-2017-6972,CVE-2017-7175. Webapps exploit for Linux platform
fileexploits/linux/webapps/42314.txt
idEDB-ID:42314
last seen2017-07-11
modified2017-07-11
platformlinux
port
published2017-07-11
reporterExploit-DB
sourcehttps://www.exploit-db.com/download/42314/
titleNfSen < 1.3.7 / AlienVault OSSIM 4.3.1 - 'customfmt' Command Injection
typewebapps

Packetstorm

data sourcehttps://packetstormsecurity.com/files/download/143325/nfsenalienvaultcustomfnt-exec.txt
idPACKETSTORM:143325
last seen2017-07-12
published2017-07-11
reporterPaul Taylor
sourcehttps://packetstormsecurity.com/files/143325/NfSen-1.3.7-AlienVault-OSSIM-4.3.1-customfnt-Command-Injection.html
titleNfSen 1.3.7 / AlienVault OSSIM 4.3.1 customfnt Command Injection