CVE-2011-4644

Summary

Splunk 4.2.5 and earlier, when a Free license is selected, enables potentially undesirable functionality within an environment that intentionally does not support authentication, which allows remote attackers to (1) read arbitrary files via a management-console session that leverages the ability to create crafted data sources, or (2) execute management commands via an HTTP request.

Impact & exploitability

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products we track (1)

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Additional information

• NVD record
• http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18245/Exploit
• http://www.sec-1.com/blog/?p=233Exploit
• http://www.sec-1.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Attacking_Splunk_Release.pdfExploit