CVE-2023-40593 (GCVE-0-2023-40593)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-08-30 16:19 – Updated: 2025-02-28 11:03
VLAI
Title
Denial of Service (DoS) in Splunk Enterprise Using a Malformed SAML Request
Summary
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.
Severity
6.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-400 - The software does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources.
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Splunk Splunk Enterprise Affected: 8.2 , < 8.2.12 (custom)
Affected: 9.0 , < 9.0.6 (custom)
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Splunk Splunk Cloud Affected: - , < 9.0.2205 (custom)
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Date Public
2023-08-30 00:00
Credits
Aaron Devaney (Dodekeract)
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