CVE-2021-42743

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

A misconfiguration in the node default path allows for local privilege escalation from a lower privileged user to the Splunk user in Splunk Enterprise versions before 8.1.1 on Windows.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-427

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
Splunk	Splunk Enterprise	8.1 version(s) before 8.1.1

References

https://www.splunk.com/en_us/product-security/announcements/svd-2022-0501.htmlVendor Advisory
https://www.splunk.com/en_us/product-security/announcements/svd-2022-0501.htmlVendor Advisory

Timeline

Published: May 6, 2022
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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