Remote management exposure through nonlocal default binding
Published Jun 15, 2022 · Updated Sep 16, 2024
Management-service exposure in Splunk Universal Forwarder before 9.0 allows remote attackers to reach its management interface by default. The management port binds beyond localhost, so external connections can reach splunkd services; Splunk classifies this as potential exposure rather than a vulnerability. Impact depends on credentials and permissions available through the interface, and Splunk reports no effect on Splunk Enterprise instances.
Summary
What happened
Management-service exposure in Splunk Universal Forwarder before 9.0 allows remote attackers to reach its management interface by default. The management port binds beyond localhost, so external connections can reach splunkd services; Splunk classifies this as potential exposure rather than a vulnerability. Impact depends on credentials and permissions available through the interface, and Splunk reports no effect on Splunk Enterprise instances.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-32155
- Published
- Jun 15, 2022
- Updated
- Sep 16, 2024
- Vendor
- Splunk, Inc.
- Product
- Splunk Universal Forwarder
- Classifications
- CWE-732, T1133
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- Unavailable
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jun 15, 2022CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Sep 16, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=9.0 <9.0
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