CVE-2011-4642

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Summary

CVECVE-2011-4642
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2012-01-03 11:55:03 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
Descriptionmappy.py in Splunk Web in Splunk 4.2.x before 4.2.5 does not properly restrict use of the mappy command to access Python classes, which allows remote authenticated administrators to execute arbitrary code by leveraging the sys module in a request to the search application, as demonstrated by a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attack, aka SPL-45172.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 4.6 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-352 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
High
Authentication
Single
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Splunk Splunk 4.2 All All All
Application Splunk Splunk 4.2.1 All All All
Application Splunk Splunk 4.2.2 All All All
Application Splunk Splunk 4.2.3 All All All
Application Splunk Splunk 4.2.4 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Splunk 4.2.5 addresses three vulnerabilities - December 12th, 2011 | Splunk af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.splunk.com Vendor Advisory
Advisory: Multiple Splunk Vulnerabilities | Sec-1 Labs af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.sec-1.com Exploit
Sec-1 now fully incorporated into Claranet. How to find us. | Claranet UK af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.sec-1.com Exploit
Security Alerts - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Splunk Bugs Permit Remote Autheticated Code Injection and Directory Traversal and Remote Cross-Site Scripting Attacks - SecurityTracker af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securitytracker.com
Splunk Remote Root Exploit af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.exploit-db.com Exploit
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