Splunk Enterprise: misconfiguration in the node default path allows for local privilege escalation from a lower privileged user to the…
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 days ago·verify at source
Mitigation
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Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 2 days ago·verify at source
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