Splunk Enterprise 6.6.x, when configured to run as root but drop privileges to a specific non-root account, allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to that non-root account to modify $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/splunk-launch.conf and insert Trojan horse programs into $SPLUNK_HOME/bin, because the non-root setup instructions state that chown should be run across all of $SPLUNK_HOME to give non-root access.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2018-10-19T08:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T21:20:50.797Z

Reserved: 2018-10-19T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-18348

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2018-10-19T08:29:00.263

Modified: 2019-10-03T00:03:26.223

Link: CVE-2017-18348

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