CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-40598
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-08-30
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-306, CWE-77
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.
Affected configurations
• splunk splunk (< 8.2.12)
• splunk splunk (>= 9.0.0 < 9.0.6)
• splunk splunk (>= 9.1.0 < 9.1.1)
• splunk splunk cloud platform (< 9.0.2305.200)
Related
References
- https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2023-0807 Vendor Advisory
- https://research.splunk.com/application/ee69374a-d27e-4136-adac-956a96ff60fd/ Vendor Advisory
- https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2023-0807 Vendor Advisory
- https://research.splunk.com/application/ee69374a-d27e-4136-adac-956a96ff60fd/ Vendor Advisory