CVE-2017-6971

2017-03-22 15:59:00 2019-10-03 02:03:26

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.

Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Authentication

SINGLE_INSTANCE

Confidentiality

COMPLETE

Integrity

COMPLETE

Availability

COMPLETE

Alienvault Unified security management 5.3.6 (not an official CPE) Alienvault Ossim 5.3.6 (not an official CPE) Nfsen Nfsen 1.3.7 (not an official CPE)

Alienvault - Unified security management Alienvault - Ossim Nfsen - Nfsen

Advisory	Patch	Confirmed	Link
			https://www.alienvault.com/forums/discussion/8698
			https://www.alienvault.com/forums/discussion/8325/
			42306
			https://sourceforge.net/p/nfsen/news/2017/01/nfsen-138-r...

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection') (ID 74)

Related CAPEC 38 Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables (CAPEC-ID 10) Server Side Include (SSI) Injection (CAPEC-ID 101) Cross Site Scripting through Log Files (CAPEC-ID 106) Command Line Execution through SQL Injection (CAPEC-ID 108) Subverting Environment Variable Values (CAPEC-ID 13) Format String Injection (CAPEC-ID 135) Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow (CAPEC-ID 14) Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow (CAPEC-ID 24) XML Injection (CAPEC-ID 250) Leverage Alternate Encoding (CAPEC-ID 267) HTTP Response Smuggling (CAPEC-ID 273) Fuzzing (CAPEC-ID 28) Using Leading 'Ghost' Character Sequences to Bypass Input Filters (CAPEC-ID 3) HTTP Response Splitting (CAPEC-ID 34) Manipulating Writeable Terminal Devices (CAPEC-ID 40) MIME Conversion (CAPEC-ID 42) Exploiting Multiple Input Interpretation Layers (CAPEC-ID 43) Buffer Overflow via Symbolic Links (CAPEC-ID 45) Overflow Variables and Tags (CAPEC-ID 46) Buffer Overflow via Parameter Expansion (CAPEC-ID 47) Poison Web Service Registry (CAPEC-ID 51) Embedding NULL Bytes (CAPEC-ID 52) Postfix, Null Terminate, and Backslash (CAPEC-ID 53) Using Slashes and URL Encoding Combined to Bypass Validation Logic (CAPEC-ID 64) SQL Injection (CAPEC-ID 66) String Format Overflow in syslog() (CAPEC-ID 67) Blind SQL Injection (CAPEC-ID 7) Using Unicode Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic (CAPEC-ID 71) URL Encoding (CAPEC-ID 72) Manipulating Input to File System Calls (CAPEC-ID 76) Using Escaped Slashes in Alternate Encoding (CAPEC-ID 78) Using Slashes in Alternate Encoding (CAPEC-ID 79) Buffer Overflow in an API Call (CAPEC-ID 8) Using UTF-8 Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic (CAPEC-ID 80) XPath Injection (CAPEC-ID 83) XQuery Injection (CAPEC-ID 84) Buffer Overflow in Local Command-Line Utilities (CAPEC-ID 9) XSS in IMG Tags (CAPEC-ID 91)