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CVE-2021-42743

HIGH
Published 2022-05-06T16:36:35
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CVSS Score

V3.1
8.8
/10
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Base Score Metrics
Exploitability: N/A Impact: N/A

EPSS Score

v2025.03.14
0.001
probability
of exploitation in the wild

There is a 0.1% chance that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.

Updated: 2025-06-25
Exploit Probability
Percentile: 0.334
Higher than 33.4% of all CVEs

Attack Vector Metrics

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED

Impact Metrics

Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH

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.

Available Exploits

No exploits available for this CVE.

Related News

No news articles found for this CVE.

Affected Products

Splunk

Splunk Enterprise

Affected Versions:

8.1 version(s) before 8.1.1

GitHub Security Advisories

Community-driven vulnerability intelligence from GitHub

⚠ Unreviewed HIGH

GHSA-h2qf-x496-gm8q

Advisory Details

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 Scoring

CVSS Score

7.5

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-42743
WEB https://www.splunk.com/en_us/product-security/announcements/svd-2022-0501.html

Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: May 7, 2022, Modified: May 18, 2022

References

https://www.splunk.com/en_us/product-security/announcements/svd-2022-0501.html
Published: 2022-05-06T16:36:35
Last Modified: 2024-08-04T03:38:50.215Z
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