CVE-2011-4642: Splunk

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 28.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Splunk Splunk: version 4.2 only; version 4.2.1 only; version 4.2.2 only; version 4.2.3 only; version 4.2.4 only

Published 2012-01-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.