CVE-2017-6971: Alienvault Ossim

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 16.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Alienvault Ossim: up to and including 5.3.6
• Alienvault Unified Security Management: up to and including 5.3.6
• Nfsen Nfsen: up to and including 1.3.7

Published 2017-03-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.