High [CVE-2021-42743] Splunk Enterprise: misconfiguration in the node default path
This high-severity Splunk advisory covers CVE-2021-42743 affecting Splunk Enterprise.
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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.
- 8.1.1
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 2 months ago·verify at source
Mitigation
Upgrade to a fixed release: 8.1.1. That is the remediation for this advisory.
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Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 2 months ago·verify at source
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