QID 378866

Date Published: 2023-10-31

QID 378866: Splunk Enterprise Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability (SVD-2022-1101)

In Splunk Enterprise versions below 8.1.12, 8.2.9, and 9.0.2, Splunk Enterprise fails to properly validate and escape the Host header, which could let a remote authenticated user conduct various attacks against the system, including cross-site scripting and cache poisoning.

CVE-2022-43562.

Affected Versions:
Splunk Enterprise versions from 8.1.0 prior to 8.1.12
Splunk Enterprise versions from 8.2.0 prior to 8.2.9
Splunk Enterprise versions from 9.0.0 prior to 9.0.2

Note: This QID does not checks for the workaround, hence kept as practice.

QID Detection Logic (Authenticated)
Linux: Checks for installed vulnerable version of Splunk Enterprise from "/etc/splunk.version" file either in "/opt/splunk" directory or using "$SPLUNK_HOME" environment variable along with splunk web configuration check using "/etc/system/default/limit.conf" or "/etc/system/local/limit.conf".

Successful exploitation may lead to cross-site scripting Vulnerability

CVSS V3 rated as Medium - 4.8 severity.

CVSS V2 rated as High - 6.5 severity.

Solution

Vendor has released updated versions to fix these vulnerabilities. Please refer SVD-2022-1101 for more details.

Vendor References

SVD-2022-1101 - advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2022-1101

CVEs related to QID 378866

CVE-2022-43561 |

Software Advisories

Advisory ID	Software	Component	Link
SVD-2022-1101			advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2022-1101

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