CVE-2017-6972 (GCVE-0-2017-6972)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-03-22 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 15:49
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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.
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CWE
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