VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2017-6972

CVSS score10 HIGH

EPSS probability16.18%

CISA KEVNot currently listed

Published2017-03-22

Last modified2026-06-17

Description

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.