What is CVE-2017-6970?

CVE-2017-6970 is a high-severity vulnerability in Alienvault Ossim, classified under OS Command Injection. CVSS score: 8.4/10. Published 2017-03-22.

How severe is CVE-2017-6970?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.4 out of 10.

RCE in Alienvault Ossim

CVE-2017-6970

AlienVault USM and OSSIM before 5.3.7 and NfSen before 1.3.8 allow local users to execute arbitrary commands in a privileged context via an NfSen socket, aka AlienVault ID ENG-104863.

Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)

Published 2017-03-22 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.4 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.017 (76.0th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 76th percentile — 76.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.017 · newest: 0.017 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-78 — OS Command Injection

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-6970?: CVE-2017-6970 is a high-severity vulnerability in Alienvault Ossim, classified under OS Command Injection. CVSS score: 8.4/10. Published 2017-03-22.
How severe is CVE-2017-6970?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.4 out of 10.