FKIE_CVE-2023-40595

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2023-08-30 17:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 06:18
Severity
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In Splunk Enterprise versions lower than 8.2.12, 9.0.6, and 9.1.1, an attacker can execute a specially crafted query that they can then use to serialize untrusted data. The attacker can use the query to execute arbitrary code.
References
prodsec@splunk.comhttps://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2023-0804Vendor Advisory
prodsec@splunk.comhttps://research.splunk.com/application/d1d8fda6-874a-400f-82cf-dcbb59d8e4db/Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2023-0804Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://research.splunk.com/application/d1d8fda6-874a-400f-82cf-dcbb59d8e4db/Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
splunk splunk *
splunk splunk *
splunk splunk 9.1.0
splunk splunk_cloud_platform *
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