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CVE-2021-42743

Local privilege escalation via a default path in Splunk Enterprise Windows

CVSS 8.8 HIGHEPSS 0.2%CWE-427
Vexday Risk Score
21Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS 8.8EPSS 0.2%KEV nãoPoC Nuclei Metasploit Patch
Lifecycle
06 May 2022Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

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