Vulnerability · Published Jun 15, 2022 · Assigned by Splunk

CVE-2022-32158Splunk Enterprise deployment servers allow client publishing of forwarder bundles

Critical 9.0

In plain English

A critical-severity improper access control in Splunk Enterprise from Splunk, Inc. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.5% (higher than 75% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)9.0Critical
Exploit odds (30 days)1.5%top 25.2% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Splunk Enterprise deployment servers in versions before 8.1.10.1, 8.2.6.1, and 9.0 let clients deploy forwarder bundles to other deployment clients through the deployment server. An attacker that compromised a Universal Forwarder endpoint could use the vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on all other Universal Forwarder endpoints subscribed to the deployment server.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Splunk, Inc Splunk Enterprise 9.0 – before 9.08.2 – before 8.2.6.18.1 – before 8.1.10.1

Weakness: CWE-284 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

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