CVE-2016-4858
Cross-site scripting vulnerability in Splunk Enterprise 6.4.x prior to 6.4.2, Splunk Enterprise 6.3.x prior to 6.3.6, Splunk Enterprise…
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- jpcert
Description
Cross-site scripting vulnerability in Splunk Enterprise 6.4.x prior to 6.4.2, Splunk Enterprise 6.3.x prior to 6.3.6, Splunk Enterprise 6.2.x prior to 6.2.10, Splunk Enterprise 6.1.x prior to 6.1.11, Splunk Enterprise 6.0.x prior to 6.0.12, Splunk Enterprise 5.0.x prior to 5.0.16 and Splunk Light prior to 6.4.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.
Timeline
ID reserved
By jpcert
- 12 months later
· 12 months later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium4.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.63% · top 49% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.8.
Weakness
- Cross-site scripting
- CWE-79 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-79 and its CVEs
Affected products
Splunk Inc. · Splunk Enterprise
- affected 6.4.x prior to 6.4.2
- affected 6.3.x prior to 6.3.6
- affected 6.2.x prior to 6.2.10
- affected 6.1.x prior to 6.1.11
- affected 6.0.x prior to 6.0.12
- affected 5.0.x prior to 5.0.16
- affected prior to 6.4.2
References (2)
- https://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAPN9 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- JVN#71462075 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_JVNx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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