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Vigil@nce - Splunk Enterprise: directory traversal of Search Inspector
May 2015 by Vigil@nce
This bulletin was written by Vigil@nce : http://vigilance.fr/offer
SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can traverse directories in Search Inspector of Splunk
Enterprise, in order to read a file outside the service root path.
– Impacted products: Splunk
– Severity: 2/4
– Creation date: 27/03/2015
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The Splunk Enterprise product offers a web service.
However, in Search Inspector, user’s data are directly inserted in
an access path. Sequences such as "/.." can thus be used to go in
the upper directory.
An attacker can therefore traverse directories in Search Inspector
of Splunk Enterprise, in order to read a file outside the service
root path.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
http://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Splunk-Enterprise-directory-traversal-of-Search-Inspector-16485
