CVE-2023-3997 (GCVE-0-2023-3997)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-07-31 16:16 – Updated: 2025-02-28 11:03
VLAI
Title
Unauthenticated Log Injection In Splunk SOAR
Summary
Splunk SOAR versions lower than 6.1.0 are indirectly affected by a potential vulnerability accessed through the user’s terminal. A third party can send Splunk SOAR a maliciously crafted web request containing special ANSI characters to cause log file poisoning. When a terminal user attempts to view the poisoned logs, this can tamper with the terminal and cause possible malicious code execution from the terminal user’s action.
Severity
8.6 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-117 - The software does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes output that is written to logs.
Assigner
Splunk CNA
CNA scorecard – unranked: 0 records in the last 180 days, 10 needed details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Splunk Splunk SOAR (On-premises) Affected: - , < 6.1.0 (custom)
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Splunk Splunk SOAR (Cloud) Affected: - , < 6.1.0 (custom)
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Date Public
2023-07-31 00:00
Credits
STÖK / Fredrik Alexandersson
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