cve-2023-22938
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-02-14 17:24
Modified
2025-03-19 18:53
Severity ?
4.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Summary
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 8.1.13, 8.2.10, and 9.0.4, the ‘sendemail’ REST API endpoint lets any authenticated user send an email as the Splunk instance. The endpoint is now restricted to the ‘splunk-system-user’ account on the local instance.
References
prodsec@splunk.comhttps://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2023-0208Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2023-0208Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Splunk Splunk Enterprise Version: 8.1   < 8.1.13
Version: 8.2   < 8.2.10
Version: 9.0   < 9.0.4
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   Splunk Splunk Cloud Platform Version: -   < 9.0.2212
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