Vulnerability · Published Oct 14, 2024 · Assigned by Splunk
CVE-2024-45736Improperly Formatted ‘INGEST_EVAL’ Parameter Crashes Splunk Daemon
Medium 6.5
In plain English
A medium-severity uncontrolled resource consumption in Splunk Cloud Platform from Splunk. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.5% (higher than 45% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.3.1, 9.2.3, and 9.1.6 and Splunk Cloud Platform versions below 9.2.2403.107, 9.1.2312.204, and 9.1.2312.111, a low-privileged user that does not hold the "admin" or "power" Splunk roles could craft a search query with an improperly formatted "INGEST_EVAL" parameter as part of a [Field Transformation](https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Knowledge/Managefieldtransforms) which could crash the Splunk daemon (splunkd).
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Splunk | Splunk Enterprise | 9.3 – before 9.3.19.2 – before 9.2.39.1 – before 9.1.6 |
| Splunk | Splunk Cloud Platform | 9.2.2403 – before 9.2.2403.1079.1.2312 – before 9.1.2312.2049.1.2312 – before 9.1.2312.111 |
Weakness: CWE-400 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H