CVE-2024-45731: Splunk

High severity, CVSS 8.0. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Splunk Enterprise for Windows versions below 9.3.1, 9.2.3, and 9.1.6, a low-privileged user that does not hold the "admin" or "power" Splunk roles could write a file to the Windows system root directory, which has a default location in the Windows System32 folder, when Splunk Enterprise for Windows is installed on a separate drive.

Affected products

• Splunk Splunk: from 9.1.0, before 9.1.6 (fixed in 9.1.6); from 9.2.0, before 9.2.3 (fixed in 9.2.3); version 9.3.0 only

Published 2024-10-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.