CVE-2011-4644: Splunk

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 7.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Splunk 4.2.5 and earlier, when a Free license is selected, enables potentially undesirable functionality within an environment that intentionally does not support authentication, which allows remote attackers to (1) read arbitrary files via a management-console session that leverages the ability to create crafted data sources, or (2) execute management commands via an HTTP request.

Affected products

• Splunk Splunk: up to and including 4.2.5; version 2.1 only; version 2.2 only; version 2.2.1 only; version 2.2.3 only; version 2.2.6 only; …

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