Indexing blockage via malformed data sent through S2S or HEC protocols in Splunk Enterprise (Splunk Splunk Enterprise)

CVE-2022-43572
HIGH 7.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.85 % · percentile 58 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Splunk
NVD status
Modified

Description

In Splunk Enterprise versions below 8.2.9, 8.1.12, and 9.0.2, sending a malformed file through the Splunk-to-Splunk (S2S) or HTTP Event Collector (HEC) protocols to an indexer results in a blockage or denial-of-service preventing further indexing.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
  • CWE-94 — Improper Control of Generation of Code

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HSplunk
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · prodsec@splunk.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Splunk · Splunk Enterpriseaffected 8.1 < 8.1.12 ; affected 8.2 < 8.2.9 ; affected 9.0 < 9.0.2

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD