CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-4642
4.6 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-01-03
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-352
Description
mappy.py in Splunk Web in Splunk 4.2.x before 4.2.5 does not properly restrict use of the mappy command to access Python classes, which allows remote authenticated administrators to execute arbitrary code by leveraging the sys module in a request to the search application, as demonstrated by a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attack, aka SPL-45172.
Affected configurations
• splunk splunk 4.2
• splunk splunk 4.2.1
• splunk splunk 4.2.2
• splunk splunk 4.2.3
• splunk splunk 4.2.4
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery weakness
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/47232 secunia.com
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18245/ Exploit
- http://www.sec-1.com/blog/?p=233 Exploit
- http://www.sec-1.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Attacking_Splunk_Release.pdf Exploit
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026451 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAGMM Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/47232 secunia.com
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18245/ Exploit
- http://www.sec-1.com/blog/?p=233 Exploit
- http://www.sec-1.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Attacking_Splunk_Release.pdf Exploit
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026451 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAGMM Vendor Advisory