Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published May 6, 2022· Updated Aug 4, 2024
Local privilege escalation via a default path in Splunk Enterprise Windows
CVE-2021-42743
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.
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Affected products
2<8.1.1+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: <8.1.1
- (no CPE)range: 8.1 version(s) before 8.1.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
1- www.splunk.com/en_us/product-security/announcements/svd-2022-0501.htmlmitrex_refsource_MISC
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