CVE-2023-40597 (GCVE-0-2023-40597)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-08-30 16:19 – Updated: 2025-07-01 13:45
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Summary
In Splunk Enterprise versions lower than 8.2.12, 9.0.6, and 9.1.1, an attacker can exploit an absolute path traversal to execute arbitrary code that is located on a separate disk.
Severity ?
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-36 - The software uses external input to construct a pathname that should be within a restricted directory, but it does not properly neutralize absolute path sequences such as /abs/path that can resolve to a location that is outside of that directory.
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Splunk Splunk Enterprise Affected: 8.2 , < 8.2.12 (custom)
Affected: 9.0 , < 9.0.6 (custom)
Affected: 9.1 , < 9.1.1 (custom)
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    Splunk Splunk Cloud Affected: - , < 9.0.2305.200 (custom)
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Credits
Danylo Dmytriiev (DDV_UA)
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