CVE-2024-45734 Low Privilege User can View Images on the Host Machine by using the PDF Export feature in Splunk Classic Dashboard
Low-privileged users can read local host images via PDF export in Splunk Classic Dashboards by exploiting path traversal in image tags.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-45734?
CVE-2024-45734 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Splunk Splunk, published on 14 Oct 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
In Splunk Enterprise versions 9.3.0, 9.2.3, and 9.1.6, a low-privileged user that does not hold the "admin" or "power" Splunk roles could view images on the machine that runs Splunk Enterprise by using the PDF export feature in Splunk classic dashboards. The images on the machine could be exposed by exporting the dashboard as a PDF, using the local image path in the img tag in the source extensible markup language (XML) code for the Splunk classic dashboard.
Weakness: CWE-284
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-45734?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Splunk Splunk.
How do I fix CVE-2024-45734?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-45734 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.
Is CVE-2024-45734 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-45734 exists.
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Sources
Also known as GHSA-q3q7-5v7p-vvhh.