OSSIM Multiple vulnerabilities
We discovered two critical vulnerabilities in OSSIM (versions prior to 5.0.1) that may be abused to take control of an OSSIM system and escalate privileges from an unprivileged local user access. A vulnerability affecting the asset discovery scanner allowed any authenticated user to execute arbitrary commands remotely (CVE-2015-4046). It was then possible to escalate privileges thanks to a specifically crafted Nmap script, and gain root access on the machine (CVE-2015-4045). Both were responsibly disclosed.
We discovered two critical vulnerabilities in OSSIM (versions prior to 5.0.1) that may be abused to take control of an OSSIM system and escalate privileges from an unprivileged local user access. A vulnerability affecting the asset discovery scanner allowed any authenticated user to execute arbitrary commands remotely (CVE-2015-4046). It was then possible to escalate privileges thanks to a specifically crafted Nmap script, and gain root access on the machine (CVE-2015-4045). Both were responsibly disclosed
AlienVault fixed these vulnerabilities in the last release of OSSIM (version 5.0.1), among other security issues (https://www.alienvault.com/forums/discussion/5126/).