cve-2023-40593
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-08-30 16:19
Modified
2025-02-28 11:03
Severity ?
6.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
In Splunk Enterprise versions lower than 9.0.6 and 8.2.12, a malicious actor can send a malformed security assertion markup language (SAML) request to the `/saml/acs` REST endpoint which can cause a denial of service through a crash or hang of the Splunk daemon.
References
prodsec@splunk.comhttps://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2023-0802Vendor Advisory
prodsec@splunk.comhttps://research.splunk.com/application/8e8a86d5-f323-4567-95be-8e817e2baee6/Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2023-0802Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://research.splunk.com/application/8e8a86d5-f323-4567-95be-8e817e2baee6/Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Splunk Splunk Enterprise Version: 8.2   < 8.2.12
Version: 9.0   < 9.0.6
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   Splunk Splunk Cloud Version: -   < 9.0.2205
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