Privilege escalation in Splunk
| Risk | Low |
| Patch available | NO |
| Number of vulnerabilities | 1 |
| CVE-ID | N/A |
| CWE-ID | CWE-264 |
| Exploitation vector | Local |
| Public exploit | N/A |
| Vulnerable software |
Splunk Universal Forwarder Server applications / File servers (FTP/HTTP) Splunk Enterprise Server applications / IDS/IPS systems, Firewalls and proxy servers Splunk Light Server applications / IDS/IPS systems, Firewalls and proxy servers |
| Vendor | Splunk Inc. |
Security Bulletin
This security bulletin contains one low risk vulnerability.
1) Privilege escalation
EUVDB-ID: #VU9119
Risk: Low
CVSSv4.0: 5.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear]
CVE-ID: N/A
CWE-ID:
CWE-264 - Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
Exploit availability: No
DescriptionThe vulnerability allows a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the target system.
The weakness exists on the systems running with non-root user privileges and with the '$SPLUNK_HOME' and '$SPLUNK_HOME/etc' directories owned by the splunk user due to improper access control. A local attacker can gain root privileges.
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any solutions addressing the vulnerability.
Splunk Universal Forwarder: 6.1.0 - 6.1.3
Splunk Enterprise: 5.0.0 - 7.0.1
Splunk Light: 6.2.2 - 6.6.3
CPE2.3- cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk_universal_forwarder:6.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk_universal_forwarder:6.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk_universal_forwarder:6.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk_enterprise:5.0.19:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk_enterprise:6.0.15:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk_enterprise:6.1.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk_enterprise:6.2.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk_enterprise:6.3.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk_enterprise:6.4.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk_enterprise:6.5.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk_light:6.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
https://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAP3M
Q & A
Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?
No. This vulnerability can be exploited locally. The attacker should have authentication credentials and successfully authenticate on the system.
How the attacker can exploit this vulnerability?
The attacker would have to send a specially crafted request to the affected application in order to exploit this vulnerability.
The attacker would have to login to the system and perform certain actions in order to exploit this vulnerability.
Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?
No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.
