Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-45731

High

Published: 14 October 2024

Published
14 October 2024
Modified
17 October 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 8.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0060 69.9th percentile
Risk Priority 16 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-45731 is a high-severity Relative Path Traversal (CWE-23) vulnerability in Splunk Splunk. Its CVSS base score is 8.0 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 30.1% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

In Splunk Enterprise for Windows versions below 9.3.1, 9.2.3, and 9.1.6, a low-privileged user that does not hold the "admin" or "power" Splunk roles could write a file to the Windows system root directory, which has a default location in…

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the Windows System32 folder, when Splunk Enterprise for Windows is installed on a separate drive.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

splunk
splunk
9.3.0 · 9.1.0 — 9.1.6 · 9.2.0 — 9.2.3

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-22

Validates pathnames and filenames to prevent traversal outside intended directories.

References