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CVE-2017-6972

Estado: ModificadaCrítica (9.8)—

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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Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)

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Tecnologías afectadas (3)

Alienvault — OssimAlienvault — Unified Security ManagementNfsen — Nfsen

CWE

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