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CVE-2023-22941 (GCVE-0-2023-22941)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-02-14 17:22 – Updated: 2025-02-28 11:03
VLAI
Title
Improperly Formatted ‘INGEST_EVAL’ Parameter Crashes Splunk Daemon
Summary
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).
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-05-20 19:25 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-248 - An exception is thrown from a function, but it is not caught.
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Splunk Splunk Enterprise Affected: 8.1 , < 8.1.13 (custom)
Affected: 8.2 , < 8.2.10 (custom)
Affected: 9.0 , < 9.0.4 (custom)
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Splunk Splunk Cloud Platform Affected: - , < 9.0.2212 (custom)
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Date Public
2023-02-14 00:00
Credits
James Ervin, Splunk
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