CVE-2023-40594

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

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 8.2.12, 9.0.6, and 9.1.1, an attacker can use the `printf` SPL function to perform a denial of service (DoS) against the Splunk Enterprise instance.

Affected (4)

Products: Splunk: Splunk, Splunk Cloud Platform

Splunk

2 products

Splunk

Splunk Cloud Platform

Configuration A

4 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Splunk Splunk	From 8.2.0 to 8.2.12
Splunk Splunk	From 9.0.0 to 9.0.6
Splunk Splunk	Version 9.1.0
Splunk 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)

https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2023-0803

Source: prodsec@splunk.com

Vendor Advisory

https://research.splunk.com/application/78b48d08-075c-4eac-bd07-e364c3780867/

Source: prodsec@splunk.com

Vendor Advisory

https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2023-0803

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Vendor Advisory

https://research.splunk.com/application/78b48d08-075c-4eac-bd07-e364c3780867/

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Vendor Advisory

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