CVE-2023-32714

Path Traversal in Splunk App for Lookup File Editing

State
Published
Severity
8.1 High
Published
Jun 1, 2023
Updated
Feb 28, 2025
Reserved
May 11, 2023

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Description

In the Splunk App for Lookup File Editing versions below 4.0.1, a low-privileged user can, with a specially crafted web request, trigger a path traversal exploit that can then be used to read and write to restricted areas of the Splunk installation directory.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.18.1 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:NSplunk

Weaknesses

  • CWE-35 The software uses external input to construct a pathname that should be within a restricted directory, but it does not properly neutralize '.../...//' (doubled triple dot slash) sequences that can resolve to a location that is outside of that directory.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Splunk App for Lookup File EditingSplunk
  • 4.0 to before 4.0.1Affected

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