VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-5210

critical
Published 2014-08-21 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
10.0

Description

The av-centerd SOAP service in AlienVault OSSIM before 4.7.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted (1) remote_task or (2) get_license request, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-3804 and CVE-2014-3805.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-42697 remote linux
James Fitts · 2014-08-14

Alienvault Open Source SIEM (OSSIM) < 4.7.0 - 'get_license' Remote Command Execution (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_management{"endIncluding":"4.6.1"}
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_management1.0.4
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_management1.0.6
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_management2.1
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_management2.1.2
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_management2.1.5
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_management2.1.5-1
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_management2.1.5-2
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_management2.1.5-3
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_management3.1
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_management3.1.9
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_management3.1.10
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_management3.1.12
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_management4.0
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_management4.0.3
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_management4.0.4
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_management4.1
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_management4.1.2
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_management4.1.3
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_management4.2
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_management4.2.2
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_management4.2.3
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_management4.3
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_management4.3.1
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_management4.3.2
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_management4.3.3
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_management4.4
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_management4.5
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_management4.6

References

CWEs

CWE-94

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.