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CVE-2018-7431

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.3% 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-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the Splunk Django App 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 6.4.6, and 6.5.x before 6.5.3; and Splunk Light before 6.6.0 allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files 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 6.4.6 — fixed in 6.0.14, 6.1.13, 6.2.14, 6.3.10, 6.4.6, 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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