CVE-2021-42743: Splunk Enterprise: misconfiguration in the node default path
This Splunk advisory covers CVE-2021-42743. Related products: Splunk Enterprise.
- CVE-2021-42743
Key facts
- Vendor rating
- High, CVSS 8.8
- CISA KEV
- Not listed (catalogue checked )
- Versions named
- 8.1.1
- Fixed in
- 8.1.1
- Source published
- Source revised
- Listed by VulniPulse
- Record changed
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Related products & platforms
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.
Text from the source record.
- 8.1.1
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched ·verify at source
How to fix CVE-2021-42743
Upgrade to a fixed release named by Splunk:
- 8.1.1
Support dates for the fixed release lines
- Splunk Enterprise 8.1: support ended
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