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Splunkd Server Info Exposed

splunkd-server-info-exposed is a high severity check in the monitoring category, written in yaml. Its source is templates/monitoring/splunk/splunkd-server-info-exposed.yaml in cert-x-gen-templates.

Detects Splunkd management API access without authentication by querying /services/server/info. Exposed Splunkd can enable data access and RCE in vulnerable or misconfigured deployments.

Field Value
Id splunkd-server-info-exposed
Severity high
Language yaml
Category monitoring
Author CERT-X-GEN Security Team
Template version 1.0.0
Confidence 80
CVSS 8
Weakness CWE-306
Tags splunk, splunkd, monitoring, unauthenticated, exposure
Target kind not recorded
Oracle not recorded

The file declares http, remediation as well. Those are not tabled above; read the source for what they carry.

Declared in the header. cxg parses @references and then discards it, and nothing at scan time reads it, so this is the only place the links a template cites are surfaced.

To see what the copy on your machine says about itself, and to confirm it is installed at all:

Terminal window
cxg template info splunkd-server-info-exposed

The id it prints is the one to pass anywhere a template is selected. See cxg template for the rest of the subcommand, Scan a target for running a scan, and A match is not a finding for how to read what comes back.