Splunk collect file Directory Traversal (CVE-2013-6771)

A directory traversal vulnerability has been found in Splunk. The vulnerability is due to insufficient sanitization of user-provided input to the advanced search functionality in the "file" parameter of the "collect" script...

CVE-2013-6771: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

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...