cve-2023-40594
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-08-30 16:19
Modified
2025-02-28 11:03
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
In Splunk Enterprise versions lower than 8.2.12, 9.0.6, and 9.1.1, an attacker can use the `printf` SPL function to perform a denial of service (DoS) against the Splunk Enterprise instance.
References
prodsec@splunk.comhttps://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2023-0803Vendor Advisory
prodsec@splunk.comhttps://research.splunk.com/application/78b48d08-075c-4eac-bd07-e364c3780867/Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2023-0803Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://research.splunk.com/application/78b48d08-075c-4eac-bd07-e364c3780867/Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Splunk Splunk Enterprise Version: 8.2   < 8.2.12
Version: 9.0   < 9.0.6
Version: 9.1   < 9.1.1
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   Splunk Splunk Cloud Version: -   < 9.0.2303.100
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