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CVE-2021-42743: Local privilege escalation via a default path in Splunk Enterprise Windows

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-05-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-427

Description

A misconfiguration in the node default path allows for local privilege escalation from a lower privileged user to the Splunk user in Splunk Enterprise versions before 8.1.1 on Windows.

Affected products

• Splunk Enterprise: before 8.1.1 — fixed in 8.1.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Splunk Enterprise 8.1.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://www.splunk.com/en_us/product-security/announcements/svd-2022-0501.html
• https://www.splunk.com/en_us/product-security/announcements/svd-2022-0501.html

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