Vulnerability · Published Oct 14, 2024 · Assigned by Splunk

CVE-2024-45734Low Privilege User can View Images on the Host Machine by using the PDF Export feature in Splunk Classic Dashboard

Medium 4.3

In plain English

A medium-severity improper access control in Splunk Enterprise from Splunk. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 28% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)4.3Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 72.2% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

In Splunk Enterprise versions 9.3.0, 9.2.3, and 9.1.6, a low-privileged user that does not hold the "admin" or "power" Splunk roles could view images on the machine that runs Splunk Enterprise by using the PDF export feature in Splunk classic dashboards. The images on the machine could be exposed by exporting the dashboard as a PDF, using the local image path in the img tag in the source extensible markup language (XML) code for the Splunk classic dashboard.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Splunk Splunk Enterprise 9.2 – before 9.2.39.1 – before 9.1.6

Weakness: CWE-284 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

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