CVE-2017-6970 in USM

Summary

AlienVault USM and OSSIM before 5.3.5 and NfSen before 1.3.8 allow local users to execute arbitrary commands in a privileged context via an NfSen socket, aka AlienVault ID ENG-104863. NOTE: the AlienVault vendor statement of affected versions is disputed by another party.

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• Reservation: 03/17/2017
• Disclosure: 03/22/2017
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: VDB-98368 (1)
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-284 (Confirmed)
• Exploit: Download
• CVSS: 6.8
• EPSS: 0.00529
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-6970
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-6970
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2017-6970/