Splunk Cloud Platform Security Vulnerabilities - 2023
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 8.1.13 and 8.2.10, the ‘createrss’ external search command overwrites existing Resource Description Format Site Summary (RSS) feeds without verifying permissions. This feature has been deprecated and disabled by default.
4.3CVSS
4.8AI Score
0.001EPSS
In Splunk Enterprise 9.0 versions before 9.0.4, a View allows for Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) through the error message in a Base64-encoded image. The vulnerability affects instances with Splunk Web enabled. It does not affect Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.0.
8.7CVSS
5.9AI Score
0.001EPSS
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 8.1.13, 8.2.10, and 9.0.4, a View allows for Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in an extensible mark-up language (XML) View through the ‘layoutPanel’ attribute in the ‘module’ tag’.
8CVSS
6AI Score
0.001EPSS
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 8.1.13, 8.2.10, and 9.0.4, the ‘pivot’ search processing language (SPL) command lets a search bypass SPL safeguards for risky commands using a saved search job. The vulnerability requires an authenticated user to craft the saved job and a higher privileged user t...
8CVSS
7.8AI Score
0.001EPSS
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 8.1.13, 8.2.10, and 9.0.4, the ‘display.page.search.patterns.sensitivity’ search parameter lets a search bypass SPL safeguards for risky commands. The vulnerability requires a higher privileged user to initiate a request within their browser and only affects inst...
8.8CVSS
8.4AI Score
0.002EPSS
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 8.1.13, 8.2.10, and 9.0.4, the ‘search_listener’ parameter in a search allows for a blind server-side request forgery (SSRF) by an authenticated user. The initiator of the request cannot see the response without the presence of an additional vulnerability within ...
6.3CVSS
6.3AI Score
0.001EPSS
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 8.1.13, 8.2.10, and 9.0.4, the lookup table upload feature let a user upload lookup tables with unnecessary filename extensions. Lookup table file extensions may now be one of the following only: .csv, .csv.gz, .kmz, .kml, .mmdb, or .mmdb.gzl.
4.3CVSS
4.7AI Score
0.001EPSS
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.
4.3CVSS
4.5AI Score
0.001EPSS
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 8.1.13, 8.2.10, and 9.0.4, the ‘map’ search processing language (SPL) command lets a search bypass SPL safeguards for risky commands. The vulnerability requires a higher privileged user to initiate a request within their browser and only affects instances with Sp...
8.8CVSS
8.6AI Score
0.002EPSS
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 8.1.13, 8.2.10, and 9.0.4, aliases of the ‘collect’ search processing language (SPL) command, including ‘summaryindex’, ‘sumindex’, ‘stash’,’ mcollect’, and ‘meventcollect’, were not designated as safeguarded commands. The commands could potentially allow for the...
6.3CVSS
5.6AI Score
0.001EPSS
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 8.1.13, 8.2.10, and 9.0.4, an improperly-formatted ‘INGEST_EVAL’ parameter in a Field Transformation crashes the Splunk daemon (splunkd).
7.5CVSS
7.5AI Score
0.001EPSS
On Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.0.5, 8.2.11, and 8.1.14, an unauthenticated attacker can send specially-crafted messages to the XML parser within SAML authentication to cause a denial of service in the Splunk daemon.
7.7CVSS
6.5AI Score
0.001EPSS
In versions of Splunk Enterprise below 9.0.5, 8.2.11, and 8.1.14, and Splunk Cloud Platform below version 9.0.2303.100, a low-privileged user who holds a role that has the ‘edit_user’ capability assigned to it can escalate their privileges to that of the admin user by providing specially crafted we...
8.8CVSS
8.5AI Score
0.899EPSS
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.0.5, 8.2.11, and 8.1.14, and Splunk Cloud Platform versions below 9.0.2303.100, a low-privileged user can trigger an HTTP response splitting vulnerability with the ‘rest’ SPL command that lets them potentially access other REST endpoints in the system arbitrari...
8.8CVSS
8.6AI Score
0.001EPSS
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.0.5, 8.2.11. and 8.1.14, and Splunk Cloud Platform versions below 9.0.2303.100, a low-privileged user who holds the ‘user’ role can see the hashed version of the initial user name and password for the Splunk instance by using the ‘rest’ SPL command against the ...
4.3CVSS
4.9AI Score
0.001EPSS
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.0.5, 8.2.11, and 8.1.14, and in Splunk Cloud Platform versions below 9.0.2303.100, a low-privileged user can perform an unauthorized transfer of data from a search using the ‘copyresults’ command if they know the search ID (SID) of a search job that has recentl...
5.3CVSS
5.4AI Score
0.001EPSS
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.0.5, 8.2.11, and 8.1.14, and Splunk Cloud Platform versions below 9.0.2303.100, an attacker can exploit a vulnerability in the {{dump}} SPL command to cause a denial of service by crashing the Splunk daemon.
6.5CVSS
6.4AI Score
0.001EPSS
On Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.0.5, 8.2.11, and 8.1.14, and in Splunk Cloud Platform versions below 9.0.2303.100, an unauthorized user can access the {{/services/indexing/preview}} REST endpoint to overwrite search results if they know the search ID (SID) of an existing search job.
4.3CVSS
4.6AI Score
0.001EPSS
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.1.1, 9.0.6, and 8.2.12, an attacker can craft a special web request that can result in reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) on the “/app/search/table” web endpoint. Exploitation of this vulnerability can lead to the execution of arbitrary commands on the Splunk...
8.4CVSS
6.1AI Score
0.001EPSS
In Splunk Enterprise versions lower than 9.0.6 and 8.2.12, a malicious actor can send a malformed security assertion markup language (SAML) request to the /saml/acs REST endpoint which can cause a denial of service through a crash or hang of the Splunk daemon.
7.5CVSS
7.4AI Score
0.001EPSS
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.
7.5CVSS
7.4AI Score
0.001EPSS
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.
8.8CVSS
8.8AI Score
0.001EPSS
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.
8.8CVSS
8.8AI Score
0.0004EPSS
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 8.2.12, 9.0.6, and 9.1.1, an attacker can create an external lookup that calls a legacy internal function. The attacker can use this internal function to insert code into the Splunk platform installation directory. From there, a user can execute arbitrary code on...
8.8CVSS
8.8AI Score
0.001EPSS