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.
CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HAlienvault Ossim
APPAlienvault≤ 5.3.6Alienvault Unified Security Management
APPAlienvault≤ 5.3.6Nfsen
APPNfsen≤ 1.3.7
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PATCH AVAILABLE
Vendor update available. Deploy in standard maintenance cycle.
CWE
References
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