CVE-2011-4642 — mappy.py in Splunk Web in Splunk 4.2.x before 4.2.5 does not properly restrict use of the mappy command to access Python classes, which allows remote authenticated administrators to execute arbitrary code by leveraging the sys module in a request to the search application, as demonstrated by a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attack, aka SPL-45172

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mappy.py in Splunk Web in Splunk 4.2.x before 4.2.5 does not properly restrict use of the mappy command to access Python classes, which allows remote authenticated administrators to execute arbitrary code by leveraging the sys module in a request to the search application, as demonstrated by a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attack, aka SPL-45172

Published Jan 3, 2012

4.6

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 28.62%

Description

mappy.py in Splunk Web in Splunk 4.2.x before 4.2.5 does not properly restrict use of the mappy command to access Python classes, which allows remote authenticated administrators to execute arbitrary code by leveraging the sys module in a request to the search application, as demonstrated by a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attack, aka SPL-45172.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

28.62% 0.28615

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.28615

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (14 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	28.62% (0.28615)	98.08th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	28.93% (0.28928)	97.90th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 30, 2025	19.23% (0.19230)	94.87th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 29, 2025	27.09% (0.27089)	94.21th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 17, 2025	19.66% (0.19665)	94.95th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 17, 2024	5.28% (0.05276)	92.94th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Dec 12, 2024	1.93% (0.01935)	89.13th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jul 3, 2024	1.83% (0.01832)	88.36th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jan 22, 2024	1.65% (0.01653)	86.27th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Oct 2, 2023	2.23% (0.02235)	88.23th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Aug 3, 2023	1.59% (0.01588)	85.67th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	1.90% (0.01897)	86.63th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	32.22% (0.32218)	97.59th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	32.22% (0.32218)	96.51th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-352

CSRF

References (6)

http://secunia.com/advisories/47232
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18245/
exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
http://www.sec-1.com/blog/?p=233
x_refsource_MISCExploit
http://www.sec-1.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Attacking_Splunk_Release.pdf
x_refsource_MISCExploit
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026451
vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAGMM
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/47232		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18245/		exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
http://www.sec-1.com/blog/?p=233		x_refsource_MISCExploit
http://www.sec-1.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Attacking_Splunk_Release.pdf		x_refsource_MISCExploit
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026451		vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAGMM		x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Jan 3, 2012

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Nov 30, 2011

Link CVE-2011-4642

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2011-4642

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2011-4642