CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-40593

7.5 HIGH Published 2023-08-30 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2023-08-30
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-400

Description

In Splunk Enterprise versions lower than 9.0.6 and 8.2.12, a malicious actor can send a malformed security assertion markup language (SAML) request to the `/saml/acs` REST endpoint which can cause a denial of service through a crash or hang of the Splunk daemon.

Affected configurations

• splunk splunk (>= 8.2.0 < 8.2.12) • splunk splunk (>= 9.0.0 < 9.0.6) • splunk splunk cloud platform (<= 9.0.2305.100)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness

References