Potential Remote Command Execution (RCE) through arbitrary file write to Windows system root directory when Splunk Enterprise for Windows is installed on a separate disk (Splunk Splunk Enterprise)

CVE-2024-45731
HIGH 8.0

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.57 % · percentile 47 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Splunk
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

In Splunk Enterprise for Windows versions below 9.3.1, 9.2.3, and 9.1.6, a low-privileged user that does not hold the "admin" or "power" Splunk roles could write a file to the Windows system root directory, which has a default location in the Windows System32 folder, when Splunk Enterprise for Windows is installed on a separate drive.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-23 — Relative Path Traversal
  • CWE-22 — Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.0CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HSplunk
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.0CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · prodsec@splunk.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.0CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Splunk · Splunk Enterpriseaffected 9.3 < 9.3.1 ; affected 9.2 < 9.2.3 ; affected 9.1 < 9.1.6

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD