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CVE-2017-14956

31
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-14956 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability affecting AlienVault USM v5.4.2 and earlier. Authenticated users can be tricked into exporting sensitive reports via email due to the lack of an anti-CSRF token in the report export functionality. Rated as MEDIUM severity with a CVSS score of 5.7, this vulnerability requires user interaction and a low-privileged account to exploit, potentially leading to unauthorized disclosure of sensitive information (C:H). The attack complexity is low, as it can be carried out over a network. While not actively exploited in the wild and not listed on the KEV catalog, exploit code is publicly available on ExploitDB. There is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 5.4.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:alienvault:unified_security_management:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.7MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.1
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.86%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
77.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-42988 · Oct 13, 2017
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0186 is in the 97th percentile among its peer group of 15,239 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

packetstormsecurity.com / files/144617/AlienVault-USM-5.4.2-Cross-Site-Request-Forgery.html
ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
seclists.org / fulldisclosure/2017/Oct/32
ExploitMailing ListThird Party Advisory
exploit-db.com / exploits/42988
ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
rcesecurity.com / 2017/10/cve-2017-14956-alienvault-usm-leaks-sensitive-compliance-information-via-csrf
ExploitThird Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / archive/1/541342/100/0/threaded
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securityfocus.com / bid/101284
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry