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CVE-2017-6972

CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8 EPSS 14.60% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2017-03-22 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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Public Exploit Signal

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CVE
CVE-2017-6972
Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS
9.8
EPSS
14.60%

Original NVD Description

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.