CVE-2023-40598: 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…

PriorityP353high8.8CVSS 3.1

AVNACLPRLUINSUCHIHAH

EPSS

0.60%

44.2th percentile

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 the Splunk platform Instance.

Affected

8 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
splunk	splunk	< 8.2.12	8.2.12
splunk	splunk	>= 9.0.0 < 9.0.6	9.0.6
splunk	splunk	>= 9.1.0 < 9.1.1	9.1.1
splunk	splunk_cloud	>= - < 9.0.2305.200	9.0.2305.200
splunk	splunk_cloud_platform	< 9.0.2305.200	9.0.2305.200
splunk	splunk_enterprise	>= 8.2 < 8.2.12	8.2.12
splunk	splunk_enterprise	>= 9.0 < 9.0.6	9.0.6
splunk	splunk_enterprise	>= 9.1 < 9.1.1	9.1.1

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