CVE-2021-42743

HIGH

Splunk < 8.1.1 - Uncontrolled Search Path

Title source: rule

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0012
EPSS Percentile 30.9%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Classification

CWE
CWE-427
Status published

Affected Products (1)

splunk/splunk < 8.1.1

Timeline

Published May 06, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026