CVE-2021-42743

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Summary

CVECVE-2021-42743
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-05-06 17:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-05-17 17:30:00 UTC
DescriptionA 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 And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-427

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Microsoft Windows - All All All
Application Splunk Splunk All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
SVD-2022-0501 | Splunk MISC www.splunk.com
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

LEGACY: Ilias Dimopoulos of RedyOps Research Labs

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 730521 Splunk Enterprise Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (SVD-2022-0501)
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