CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-18348
7.0 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-10-19
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-732
Description
Splunk Enterprise 6.6.x, when configured to run as root but drop privileges to a specific non-root account, allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to that non-root account to modify $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/splunk-launch.conf and insert Trojan horse programs into $SPLUNK_HOME/bin, because the non-root setup instructions state that chown should be run across all of $SPLUNK_HOME to give non-root access.
Affected configurations
• splunk splunk (>= 6.6.0 <= 6.6.11)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101664 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://korelogic.com/Resources/Advisories/KL-001-2017-022.txt Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAP3M Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101664 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://korelogic.com/Resources/Advisories/KL-001-2017-022.txt Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAP3M Vendor Advisory