VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2011-4642

CVSS score4.6 MEDIUM
EPSS probability28.62%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2012-01-03
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Primary references