CVE-2023-40597

HighCVSS 8.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

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.

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-36 CWE-22

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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