Vulnerability · Published Jan 9, 2024 · Assigned by Splunk
CVE-2024-22165Denial of Service in Splunk Enterprise Security of the Investigations manager through Investigation creation
Medium 6.5
In plain English
A medium-severity improper input validation in Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) from Splunk. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.5% (higher than 44% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
In Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) versions lower than 7.1.2, an attacker can create a malformed Investigation to perform a denial of service (DoS). The malformed investigation prevents the generation and rendering of the Investigations manager until it is deleted.<br>The vulnerability requires an authenticated session and access to create an Investigation. It only affects the availability of the Investigations manager, but without the manager, the Investigations functionality becomes unusable for most users.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Splunk | Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) | 7.3 – before 7.3.07.2 – before 7.2.07.1 – before 7.1.2 |
Weakness: CWE-20 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H