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CVE-2013-6773

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-01-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-269

Description

Splunk 5.0.3 has an Unquoted Service Path in Windows for Universal Forwarder which can allow an attacker to escalate privileges

Affected products

• Splunk Enterprise: from 5.0 before 5.0.3 — fixed in 5.0.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Splunk Enterprise 5.0.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAHXG
• http://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAHXG

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