cve/2017/CVE-2017-18348.md

### [CVE-2017-18348](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-18348)
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### Description

Splunk Enterprise 6.6.x, when configured to run as root but drop privileges to a specific non-root account, allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to that non-root account to modify $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/splunk-launch.conf and insert Trojan horse programs into $SPLUNK_HOME/bin, because the non-root setup instructions state that chown should be run across all of $SPLUNK_HOME to give non-root access.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://korelogic.com/Resources/Advisories/KL-001-2017-022.txt

#### Github
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