VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2013-6771

critical
Published 2014-08-07 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v2
9.3
VIR risk
9.3

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the collect script in Splunk before 5.0.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a .. (dot dot) in the file parameter. NOTE: this issue was SPLIT per ADT2 due to different vulnerability types. CVE-2013-7394 is for the issue in the "runshellscript echo.sh" script.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAH76

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
splunksplunk{"endIncluding":"5.0.4"}
splunksplunk5.0
splunksplunk5.0.1
splunksplunk5.0.2
splunksplunk5.0.3

References

CWEs

CWE-22

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.