FKIE_CVE-2023-40592

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2023-08-30 17:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 06:18
Severity
8.4 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Summary
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 platform instance.
References
prodsec@splunk.comhttps://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2023-0801Vendor Advisory
prodsec@splunk.comhttps://research.splunk.com/application/182f9080-4137-4629-94ac-cb1083ac981a/Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2023-0801Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://research.splunk.com/application/182f9080-4137-4629-94ac-cb1083ac981a/Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
splunk splunk *
splunk splunk *
splunk splunk 9.1.0
splunk splunk_cloud_platform *
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