CyberRota Analysis
This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.0. See the original NVD description below for full technical details.
CVE
CVE-2017-18348
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7
EPSS
0.41%
Original NVD Description
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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