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Splunk Information Exposure (SP-CAAAP5E

medium Nessus Plugin ID 121163

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Synopsis

An application running on the remote web server is affected by an information exposure vulnerability.

Description

According to its self-reported version number, the version of Splunk running on the remote web server is Splunk Enterprise 6.x prior to 6.6.0. Therefore it is affected by an information disclosure vulnerability at a Splunk REST endpoint. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this via the submission a specially crafted request, to disclose potentially sensitive information about the operating system, hardware and Splunk license.

Solution

Upgrade to Splunk Enterprise version 6.6.0 or later.

See Also

https://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAP5E

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 121163

File Name: splunk_information_exposure_660.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: remote

Family: CGI abuses

Published: 1/14/2019

Updated: 5/30/2022

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-11409

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:splunk:splunk

Required KB Items: installed_sw/Splunk

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/18/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/8/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-11409

IAVA: 2021-A-0502-S