Vulnerability · Published Feb 14, 2023 · Assigned by Splunk

CVE-2023-22941Improperly Formatted ‘INGEST_EVAL’ Parameter Crashes Splunk Daemon

Medium 6.5

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in Splunk Cloud Platform from Splunk. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.0% (higher than 64% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)1.0%top 36.2% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack tooling1Public PoC

Official description

In Splunk Enterprise versions below 8.1.13, 8.2.10, and 9.0.4, an improperly-formatted ‘INGEST_EVAL’ parameter in a Field Transformation crashes the Splunk daemon (splunkd).

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Splunk Splunk Enterprise 8.1 – before 8.1.138.2 – before 8.2.109.0 – before 9.0.4
Splunk Splunk Cloud Platform - – before 9.0.2212

Weakness: CWE-248 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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