National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-4642

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAGMM

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAGMM

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1026451

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026451

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.sec-1.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Attacking_Splunk_Release.pdf

Hyperlink:http://www.sec-1.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Attacking_Splunk_Release.pdf

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.sec-1.com/blog/?p=233

Hyperlink:http://www.sec-1.com/blog/?p=233

External Source: EXPLOIT-DB

Name: 18245

Hyperlink:http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18245/

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 47232

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/47232