Vulnerability Report

CVE-2014-5197

Title: Splunk Path Traversal / LFI

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2014-5197.

CWE Category CWE-22

Published Date Aug 12, 2014

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.22%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2014-5197: Directory traversal vulnerability in (1) Splunk Web or the (2) Splunkd HTTP Server in Splunk Enterprise 6.1.x before 6.1.3 allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a URI, related to search ids.

Impacted Vendors

splunk 1

jenkins 1

Reference Links

http://secunia.com/advisories/59940 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030690 http://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAM9H http://secunia.com/advisories/59940 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030690 http://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAM9H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2014-5197 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 17, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

August 12, 2014 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:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.