name: Splunk Enterprise Vulnerability
id: 4e692b96-de2d-4bd1-9105-37e2368a8db1
version: 1
date: '2017-09-19'
author: Bhavin Patel, Splunk
type: batch
description: Keeping your Splunk deployment up to date is critical and may help you
  reduce the risk of CVE-2016-4859, an open-redirection vulnerability within some
  older versions of Splunk Enterprise. The detection search will help ensure that
  users are being properly authenticated and not being redirected to malicious domains.
narrative: 'This Analytic Story is associated with CVE-2016-4859, an open-redirect
  vulnerability in the following versions of Splunk Enterprise:\

  \

  1. Splunk Enterprise 6.4.x, prior to 6.4.3\

  1. Splunk Enterprise 6.3.x, prior to 6.3.6\

  1. Splunk Enterprise 6.2.x, prior to 6.2.10\

  1. Splunk Enterprise 6.1.x, prior to 6.1.11\

  1. Splunk Enterprise 6.0.x, prior to 6.0.12\

  1. Splunk Enterprise 5.0.x, prior to 5.0.16\

  1. Splunk Light, prior to 6.4.3CVE-2016-4859 allows attackers to redirect users
  to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks via unspecified vectors. (Credit:
  Noriaki Iwasaki, Cyber Defense Institute, Inc.).\

  It is important to ensure that your Splunk deployment is being kept up to date and
  is properly configured. This detection search allows analysts to monitor internal
  logs to ensure users are properly authenticated and cannot be redirected to any
  malicious third-party websites.'
references:
- http://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAPQ6#announce
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4859
tags:
  analytic_story: Splunk Enterprise Vulnerability
  category:
  - Vulnerability
  product:
  - Splunk Enterprise
  - Splunk Enterprise Security
  - Splunk Cloud
  usecase: Security Monitoring
