CVE-2021-42743 (GCVE-0-2021-42743)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-05-06 16:36
Modified
2024-08-04 03:38
Severity ?
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
Summary
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.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Splunk Splunk Enterprise Version: 8.1 version(s) before 8.1.1
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