CVE-2017-6972

highpriority · attend · 54EPSS 0.146 · 97 %ileexploit · functionalEURUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

1 exploit · functional

Likely / severe?

14.6% (97th) EPSS

CVSS 10 · high

Is it mine?

7 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-23

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

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

10.0

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · high–critical · 9–10

v2.010highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 10

v3.09.8criticalCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 5.9

v3.09criticalCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

v3.19.8criticalAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-273USprimaryCWE-264US

exploits (1)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

EDB-42314NfSen < 1.3.7 / AlienVault OSSIM 4.3.1 - 'customfmt' Command Injectionfunctional · exploit_db

affected products (7)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
AlienVault Inc. OSSIM≤ 5.3.7fstec_bduRU
AlienVault Inc. USM≤ 5.3.7fstec_bduRU
NfSen NfSen≤ 1.3.8fstec_bduRU
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 (5)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd fstec_bdu 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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