CVE-2017-18348: Splunk

High severity, CVSS 7.0. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Splunk Splunk: from 6.6.0, up to and including 6.6.11

Published 2018-10-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.