vulnerability
Splunk: CVE-2021-42743: Local privilege escalation via a default path in Splunk Enterprise Windows
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | May 3, 2022 | Apr 7, 2025 | Mar 25, 2026 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
May 3, 2022
Added
Apr 7, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026
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.
Solution
splunk-upgrade-latest
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