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CVE-2021-42743

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CVE-2021-42743

Published: May 6, 2022

Modified: Aug 4, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

8.8

HIGH

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.

VendorProductVersions

Splunk

Splunk Enterprise

affected
8.1 version(s) before 8.1.1

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Changed

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

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