CVE-2021-42743: Splunk

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A misconfiguration in the node default path allows for local privilege escalation from a lower privileged user to the Splunk user in Splunk Enterprise versions before 8.1.1 on Windows.

Affected products

• Splunk Splunk: before 8.1.1 (fixed in 8.1.1)

Published 2022-05-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.