CVE-2017-6971

highpriority · attend · 51EPSS 0.162 · 97 %ileexploit · functionalEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

3 exploits · functional

Likely / severe?

16.2% (97th) EPSS

CVSS 9 · high

Is it mine?

4 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

AlienVault USM and OSSIM before 5.3.7 and NfSen before 1.3.8 allow remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary commands in a privileged context, or launch a reverse shell, via vectors involving the PHP session ID and the NfSen PHP code, aka AlienVault ID ENG-104862.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

9.0

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.09highAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8 · impact 10

v3.08.8highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.8 · impact 5.9

v3.08.3highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Psecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-74USprimary

exploits (3)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

EDB-42306NfSen < 1.3.7 / AlienVault OSSIM 5.3.4 - Command Injectionfunctional · exploit_db
KeyStrOke95/nfsen_1.3.7_CVE-2017-6971KeyStrOke95/nfsen_1.3.7_CVE-2017-6971PoC · poc_in_github
patrickfreed/nfsen-exploitExploit for CVE-2017-6971 remote command execution in nfsen 1.3.7.PoC · poc_in_github

affected products (4)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
alienvault ossim≤ 5.3.6nvdUScpe:2.3:a:alienvault:ossim:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
alienvault unified security management≤ 5.3.6nvdUScpe:2.3:a:alienvault:unified_security_management:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
nfsen nfsen≤ 1.3.7nvdUScpe:2.3:a:nfsen:nfsen:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2017-03-22modified 2026-06-17

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references (12)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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