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.

Risk Information

Base Score
7.8
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
0.12

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
Vulnerabilities CVE-2021-42743 are fixed in Splunk Enterprise 8 (8.1.1)Windows
Vulnerabilities CVE-2021-42743 are fixed in Splunk Enterprise 8 (x64) (8.1.1)Windows

Patch Details

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Patch IDPatch Description
PATCH-325532Splunk Enterprise 8 (8.2.7)
PATCH-332589Splunk Enterprise 8 (x64) (8.2.12)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234