CVE-2013-6771: Splunk

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 4.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in the collect script in Splunk before 5.0.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a .. (dot dot) in the file parameter. NOTE: this issue was SPLIT per ADT2 due to different vulnerability types. CVE-2013-7394 is for the issue in the "runshellscript echo.sh" script.

Affected products

• Splunk Splunk: up to and including 5.0.4; version 5.0 only; version 5.0.1 only; version 5.0.2 only; version 5.0.3 only

Published 2014-08-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.