CVE-2023-22938 (GCVE-0-2023-22938)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-02-14 17:24 – Updated: 2025-03-19 18:53
VLAI?
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.
Severity ?
4.3 (Medium)
CWE
- CWE-285 - The software does not perform or incorrectly performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action.
Assigner
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |||||||
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| Splunk | Splunk Enterprise |
Affected:
8.1 , < 8.1.13
(custom)
Affected: 8.2 , < 8.2.10 (custom) Affected: 9.0 , < 9.0.4 (custom) |
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Credits
James Ervin, Splunk
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Nomenclature
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