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Splunk Search Remote Code Execution

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Disclosed
Dec 12, 2011
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module abuses a command execution vulnerability in the
web based interface of Splunk 4.2 to 4.2.4. The vulnerability exists
in the 'mappy' search command which allows attackers to run Python code.
To exploit this vulnerability, a valid Splunk user with the admin
role is required. By default, this module uses the credential of "admin:changeme",
the default Administrator credential for Splunk. Note that the Splunk web interface
runs as SYSTEM on Windows and as root on Linux by default.

Authors

Gary O'Leary-Steele
juan vazquez [email protected]

Platform

Linux,Unix,Windows

Architectures

cmd

References

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':


    msf > use exploit/multi/http/splunk_mappy_exec
    msf exploit(splunk_mappy_exec) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(splunk_mappy_exec) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(splunk_mappy_exec) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(splunk_mappy_exec) > exploit
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