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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 19, 2018· Updated Aug 5, 2024

CVE-2017-18348

CVE-2017-18348

Description

Splunk Enterprise 6.6.x, when configured to run as root but drop privileges to a specific non-root account, allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to that non-root account to modify $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/splunk-launch.conf and insert Trojan horse programs into $SPLUNK_HOME/bin, because the non-root setup instructions state that chown should be run across all of $SPLUNK_HOME to give non-root access.

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Affected products

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  • Splunk/Splunk Enterpriseinferred2 versions
    >=6.6.0,<6.6.99+ 1 more
    • (no CPE)range: >=6.6.0,<6.6.99
    • (no CPE)range: 6.6.x

Patches

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