QID 379303

Date Published: 2024-01-30

QID 379303: Splunk Enterprise Deserialization of Untrusted Data Vulnerability (SVD-2024-0108)

Splunk software helps capture, index and correlate real-time data in a searchable repository, from which it can generate graphs, reports, alerts, dashboards and visualizations.
Splunk Enterprise does not correctly sanitize path input data. This results in the unsafe deserialization of untrusted data from a separate disk partition on the machine.

Note: This vulnerability only affects Splunk Enterprise for Windows. Affected Versions:
Splunk Enterprise versions from 9.0.0 prior to 9.0.8
Splunk Enterprise versions from 9.1.0 prior to 9.1.3

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".
Windows: Checks for installed vulnerable version of Splunk from "/etc/splunk.version" file using registry "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Splunkd".

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability results in the unsafe deserialization of untrusted data from a separate disk partition on the machine.

  • CVSS V3 rated as Critical - 8.8 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as Medium - 5.8 severity.
    • Solution
    Vendor has released updated versions to fix these vulnerabilities. Please refer SVD-2024-0108 for more details.

    Vendor References

    CVEs related to QID 379303

    CVE-2024-23678 |
    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    SVD-2024-0108 URL Logo advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2024-0108
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