High severity · published May 6, 2022
CVE-2021-42743
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…
7.8
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 13% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
SP
Splunk · Splunk
before 8.1.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-42743
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-42743
Vendor Advisory
https://www.splunk.com/en_us/product-security/announcements/svd-2022-0501.html
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