CVE-2011-4642

medium

Published 2012-01-03 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.6

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-18245 remote multiple verified

Gary O'Leary-Steele · 2011-12-15

Splunk - Remote Command Execution

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

exploit_multi/http/splunk_mappy_exec rank 600

Splunk Search Remote Code Execution

Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
splunk	splunk	`4.2`
splunk	splunk	`4.2.1`
splunk	splunk	`4.2.2`
splunk	splunk	`4.2.3`
splunk	splunk	`4.2.4`

References

CWEs

CWE-352

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.