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CVE-2023-40593

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Published: Aug 30, 2023Modified: Jun 17, 2026

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7.5
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Exploitability: 3.9 / Impact: 3.6
Source: NVD

Description

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.

Affected (3)

Splunk
2 products
Splunk
Splunk Cloud Platform
Configuration A
3 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Splunk
Splunk
From 8.2.0 to 8.2.12
Splunk
From 9.0.0 to 9.0.6
Splunk Cloud Platform
Up to 9.0.2305.100

Related CWEs

CWE-400
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources.

References (4)

Source: prodsec@splunk.com
Vendor Advisory
Source: prodsec@splunk.com
Vendor Advisory
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory

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