Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-33845 - Information Exposure Through Discrepancy vulnerability in Splunk

CVSS 5.3 - MEDIUM

Attack vector

NETWORK

Attack complexity

LOW

Privileges required

NONE

Confidentiality impact

LOW

Integrity impact

NONE

Availability impact

NONE

network

low complexity

splunk

CWE-203

NVD

Published: 2022-05-06

Updated: 2024-11-21

Summary

The Splunk Enterprise REST API allows enumeration of usernames via the lockout error message. The potential vulnerability impacts Splunk Enterprise instances before 8.1.7 when configured to repress verbose login errors.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part	Description	Count
Application	Splunk Splunk Splunk 8.1.0 Splunk Splunk 8.1.1 Splunk Splunk 8.1.2 Splunk Splunk 8.1.4 Splunk Splunk 8.1.5 Splunk Splunk 8.1.6	6

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

CWE-203 - Information Exposure Through Discrepancy

References

https://research.splunk.com/application/splunk_user_enumeration_attempt/
https://research.splunk.com/application/splunk_user_enumeration_attempt/
https://www.splunk.com/en_us/product-security/announcements/svd-2022-0502.html
https://www.splunk.com/en_us/product-security/announcements/svd-2022-0502.html