CVE-2023-40594

Description

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.

Reserved 2023-08-16 | Published 2023-08-30 | Updated 2025-01-02 | Assigner Splunk

Problem types

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.

Product status

8.2 before 8.2.12
affected

9.0 before 9.0.6
affected

9.1 before 9.1.1
affected

- before 9.0.2303.100
affected

Credits

Danylo Dmytriiev (DDV_UA)

References

advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2023-0803

research.splunk.com/...78b48d08-075c-4eac-bd07-e364c3780867/

cve.org (CVE-2023-40594)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2023-40594)

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