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CVE-2021-42743highCWE-427

Local privilege escalation via a default path in Splunk Enterprise Windows

21Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 8.8epss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 87% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H