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CVE-2018-7427

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-10-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Splunk Web in Splunk Enterprise 6.0.x before 6.0.14, 6.1.x before 6.1.13, 6.2.x before 6.2.14, 6.3.x before 6.3.10, 6.4.x before 6.4.7, and 6.5.x before 6.5.3; and Splunk Light before 6.6.0 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• Splunk Enterprise: before 6.6.0; from 6.0.0 before 6.0.14; from 6.1.0 before 6.1.13; from 6.2.0 before 6.2.14; from 6.3.0 before 6.3.10; from 6.4.0 before 6.4.7 — fixed in 6.0.14, 6.1.13, 6.2.14, 6.3.10, 6.4.7, 6.5.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Splunk Enterprise 6.0.14, 6.1.13, 6.2.14, 6.3.10. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAP5T
• https://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAP5T

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