Vulnerabilities > Improper Check for Dropped Privileges
| DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-03-22 | CVE-2017-6972 | Improper Check for Dropped Privileges vulnerability in multiple products 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. | 9.8 |
| 2006-06-15 | CVE-2006-2916 | Improper Check for Dropped Privileges vulnerability in KDE Arts 1.0/1.2 artswrapper in aRts, when running setuid root on Linux 2.6.0 or later versions, does not check the return value of the setuid function call, which allows local users to gain root privileges by causing setuid to fail, which prevents artsd from dropping privileges. | 7.8 |