CVE-2021-42743

Local privilege escalation via a default path in Splunk Enterprise Windows

State: Published
Severity: 8.8 High
Published: May 6, 2022
Updated: Aug 4, 2024
Reserved: Nov 3, 2021

Description

A misconfiguration in the node default path allows for local privilege escalation from a lower privileged user to the Splunk user in Splunk Enterprise versions before 8.1.1 on Windows.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	Splunk

Weaknesses

CWE-427

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Splunk EnterpriseSplunk	8.1 version(s) before 8.1.1Affected

References

https://www.splunk.com/en_us/product-security/announcements/svd-2022-0501.html

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