CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-40596

8.8 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])
7.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-427, CWE-665

Description

In Splunk Enterprise versions earlier than 8.2.12, 9.0.6, and 9.1.1, a dynamic link library (DLL) that ships with Splunk Enterprise references an insecure path for the OPENSSLDIR build definition. An attacker can abuse this reference and subsequently install malicious code to achieve privilege escalation on the Windows machine.

Affected configurations

• splunk splunk (>= 8.2.0 < 8.2.12) • splunk splunk (>= 9.0.0 < 9.0.6) • splunk splunk 9.1.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element weakness
  • CWE-665 Improper Initialization weakness

References