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CVE-2023-40597 (GCVE-0-2023-40597)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-08-30 16:19 – Updated: 2025-07-01 13:45
VLAI
Title
Absolute Path Traversal in Splunk Enterprise Using runshellscript.py
Summary
In Splunk Enterprise versions lower than 8.2.12, 9.0.6, and 9.1.1, an attacker can exploit an absolute path traversal to execute arbitrary code that is located on a separate disk.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-07-01 13:44 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-36 - The software uses external input to construct a pathname that should be within a restricted directory, but it does not properly neutralize absolute path sequences such as /abs/path that can resolve to a location that is outside of that directory.
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Splunk Splunk Enterprise Affected: 8.2 , < 8.2.12 (custom)
Affected: 9.0 , < 9.0.6 (custom)
Affected: 9.1 , < 9.1.1 (custom)
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Splunk Splunk Cloud Affected: - , < 9.0.2305.200 (custom)
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Date Public
2023-08-30 00:00
Credits
Danylo Dmytriiev (DDV_UA)
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