8.7 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.042 Low
EPSS
Percentile
92.3%
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.
www.securityfocus.com/bid/97016
sourceforge.net/p/nfsen/news/2017/01/nfsen-138-released---security-fix/
www.alienvault.com/forums/discussion/8698
www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42314/