CVE-2013-6771

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-08-07 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the collect script in Splunk before 5.0.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a .. (dot dot) in the file parameter. NOTE: this issue was SPLIT per ADT2 due to different vulnerability types. CVE-2013-7394 is for the issue in the "runshellscript echo.sh" script.

Affected products

Splunk Enterprise: through 5.0.4; 5.0, 5.0.1, 5.0.2, 5.0.3

References

http://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAH76
http://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-14-052/
http://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAH76
http://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-14-052/

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