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High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published May 6, 2022· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2021-42743

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

3
  • Splunk/Splunk
    cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
    Range: <8.1.1
  • Splunk/Splunk Enterprisellm-fuzzy2 versions
    <8.1.1+ 1 more
    • (no CPE)range: <8.1.1
    • (no CPE)range: 8.1 version(s) before 8.1.1

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