THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2011-4642
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2011-4642

Splunk vulnerability

CVSS
4.6
EPSS
28.9%
EPSS pct
98th
Exploited
No known
mappy.py in Splunk Web in Splunk 4.2.x before 4.2.5 does not properly restrict use of the mappy command to access Python classes, which allows remote authenticated administrators to execute arbitrary code by leveraging the sys module in a request to the search application, as demonstrated by a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attack, aka SPL-45172.
Affected vendor
Splunk
Affected product
Splunk
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-352 — Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Published
2012-01-03

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, high attack complexity, requiring single-factor authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 28.9% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 98% of all scored CVEs.

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