CVE-2023-40595

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

8.8

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploitability: 2.8 / Impact: 5.9

Source: NVD

Description

In Splunk Enterprise versions lower than 8.2.12, 9.0.6, and 9.1.1, an attacker can execute a specially crafted query that they can then use to serialize untrusted data. The attacker can use the query to execute arbitrary code.

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-502

Deserialization of Untrusted Data

The product deserializes untrusted data without sufficiently verifying that the resulting data will be valid.

References (4)

https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2023-0804

Source: prodsec@splunk.com

Vendor Advisory

https://research.splunk.com/application/d1d8fda6-874a-400f-82cf-dcbb59d8e4db/

Source: prodsec@splunk.com

Vendor Advisory

https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2023-0804

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

Vendor Advisory

https://research.splunk.com/application/d1d8fda6-874a-400f-82cf-dcbb59d8e4db/

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

Vendor Advisory

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