CVE-2022-37439 — Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) in Enterprise

CWE-409 — Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)3 documents3 sources

Severity

5.5MEDIUMNVD

EPSS

0.1%

top 70.08%

CISA KEV

Not in KEV

Exploit

No known exploits

Affected products

Splunk Enterprise Splunk Universal Forwarders Splunk +1 more

Timeline

PublishedAug 16

Latest updateAug 17

Description

In Splunk Enterprise and Universal Forwarder versions in the following table, indexing a specially crafted ZIP file using the file monitoring input can result in a crash of the application. Attempts to restart the application would result in a crash and would require manually removing the malformed file.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages4 packages

▶NVDsplunk/universal_forwarder8.1.0 — 8.1.11+1

▶CVEListV5splunk/universal_forwarders8.2 — 8.2.7.1+1

▶CVEListV5splunk/splunk_enterprise8.2 — 8.2.7.1+1

▶NVDsplunk/splunk8.1.0 — 8.1.11+1

🔴Vulnerability Details

GHSA

GHSA-mg48-gp9q-6j63: In Splunk Enterprise and Universal Forwarder versions in the following table, indexing a specially crafted ZIP file using the file monitoring input ca↗2022-08-17

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CVEList

Malformed ZIP file crashes Universal Forwarders and Splunk Enterprise through file monitoring input↗2022-08-16

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