CVE-2011-4642

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Publication date:

03/01/2012

Last modified:

11/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.60 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): High
Authentication (Au): Single
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0

4.60

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk:4.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk:4.2.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk:4.2.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk:4.2.3:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk:4.2.4:::::::*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk:4.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk:4.2.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk:4.2.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk:4.2.3:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk:4.2.4:::::::*

CVE-2011-4642

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools