CVE-2023-40596
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-08-30 16:19
Modified
2024-12-10 18:00
Summary
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.
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