CVE-2023-40594 (GCVE-0-2023-40594)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-08-30 16:19
Modified
2025-02-28 11:03
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-400 - The software does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources.
Summary
In Splunk Enterprise versions lower than 8.2.12, 9.0.6, and 9.1.1, an attacker can use the `printf` SPL function to perform a denial of service (DoS) against the Splunk Enterprise instance.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Splunk Splunk Enterprise Version: 8.2   < 8.2.12
Version: 9.0   < 9.0.6
Version: 9.1   < 9.1.1
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