Vulnerability Report

CVE-2011-4642

Title: Splunk RCE

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2011-4642

CWE Category CWE-352
Published Date Jan 03, 2012
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Available
Score 4.6 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
28.93%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2011-4642: 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.

Impacted Vendors

S
splunk 1
J
jenkins 1

Reference Links

http://secunia.com/advisories/47232 http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18245/ http://www.sec-1.com/blog/?p=233 http://www.sec-1.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Attacking_Splunk_Release.pdf http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026451 http://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAGMM http://secunia.com/advisories/47232 http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18245/ http://www.sec-1.com/blog/?p=233 http://www.sec-1.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Attacking_Splunk_Release.pdf http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026451 http://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAGMM
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
4.6
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2011-4642 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18245
View Code
MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.