New Splunk Windows Flaw Enables Privilege Escalation Attacks

Splunk for Windows has a high-severity flaw that lets local users escalate privileges through misconfigured file permissions.
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Splunk explains it all

For Windows systems, Splunk provides their “universal forwarder,” an application that will pull Windows WMI data and forward it off to a Splunk server. The Universal Forwarder can also monitor file ...