PT-2012-1936 · Splunk · Splunk

Gary Oleary-Steele · Published 2012-01-03 · Updated 2012-11-06 · CVE-2011-4642

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.6

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Splunk versions 4.2.x through 4.2.4

Description The issue allows remote authenticated administrators to execute arbitrary code by leveraging the sys module in a request to the search application. This can be achieved through a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attack.

Recommendations For Splunk versions 4.2.x through 4.2.4, update to version 4.2.5 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

CSRF

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-352

Related Identifiers

CVE-2011-4642

Affected Products

Splunk

References · 10

• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/http/splunk_mappy_exec.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 http://sec-1.com/blog/?p=233 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/18245 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://sec-1.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Attacking_Splunk_Release.pdf · Exploit
• 🔥 http://exploit-db.com/exploits/18245 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-4642 · Security Note
• http://splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAGMM · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-4642 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/47232 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1026451 · Note