CVE-2023-40596

HighCVSS 8.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

In Splunk Enterprise versions earlier than 8.2.12, 9.0.6, and 9.1.1, a dynamic link library (DLL) that ships with Splunk Enterprise references an insecure path for the OPENSSLDIR build definition. An attacker can abuse this reference and subsequently install malicious code to achieve privilege escalation on the Windows machine.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 8.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-665 CWE-427

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Aug 30, 2023
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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