CVE-2011-4642 Information

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.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/47232 http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18245/ http://www.sec-1.com/blog/?p=233 http://www.sec-1.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Attacking_Splunk_Release.pdf http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026451 http://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAGMM