github - ghsa-984w-gcj2-gr36

ghsa-984w-gcj2-gr36

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-13 01:46

Modified

2022-05-13 01:46

Severity ?

9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

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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  "modified": "2022-05-13T01:46:50Z",
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cve-2017-6972

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2017-03-22 20:00

Modified

2024-08-05 15:49

Severity ?

Summary

References

▼	URL	Tags
	https://sourceforge.net/p/nfsen/news/2017/01/nfsen-138-released---security-fix/	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97016	vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
	https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42314/	exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
	https://www.alienvault.com/forums/discussion/8698	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

▼

n/a

Version: n/a

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Sightings

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