THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2011-4644
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2011-4644

Splunk vulnerability

CVSS
9.3
EPSS
7.8%
EPSS pct
94th
Exploited
No known
Splunk 4.2.5 and earlier, when a Free license is selected, enables potentially undesirable functionality within an environment that intentionally does not support authentication, which allows remote attackers to (1) read arbitrary files via a management-console session that leverages the ability to create crafted data sources, or (2) execute management commands via an HTTP request.
Affected vendor
Splunk
Affected product
Splunk
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-287 — Improper Authentication
Published
2012-01-03

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to confidentiality, complete impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 7.8% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 94% of all scored CVEs.

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  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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