Command Injection in Splunk Enterprise Using External Lookups (Splunk Splunk Enterprise)

CVE-2023-40598
HIGH 8.5

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 8.2.12, 9.0.6, and 9.1.1, an attacker can create an external lookup that calls a legacy internal function. The attacker can use this internal function to insert code into the Splunk platform installation directory. From there, a user can execute arbitrary code on the Splunk platform Instance.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-77 — Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command
  • CWE-306 — Missing Authentication for Critical Functionality

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HSplunk
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · prodsec@splunk.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Splunk · Splunk Enterpriseaffected 8.2 < 8.2.12 ; affected 9.0 < 9.0.6 ; affected 9.1 < 9.1.1
Splunk · Splunk Cloudaffected - < 9.0.2305.200

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