CVE-2023-40598

HighCVSS 8.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

In Splunk Enterprise versions below 8.2.12, 9.0.6, and 9.1.1, an attacker can create an external lookup that calls a legacy internal function. The attacker can use this internal function to insert code into the Splunk platform installation directory. From there, a user can execute arbitrary code on the Splunk platform Instance.

Metrics

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

Weakness enumeration

CWE-77 CWE-306

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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