CWE Code: 273
Vulnerability Type: privilege_escalation
CVSS Score: 10.0
CWE Name:  Improper Check for Dropped Privileges
Summary: 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.
Access Authentication: NONE
Access Complexity: LOW
Access Vector: NETWORK
Impact (C/I/A): COMPLETE/COMPLETE/COMPLETE
Published Date: 2017-03-22
Last Modified Date: 2019-10-03