CVE-2022-43570

XML External Entity Injection through a custom View in Splunk Enterprise

State: Published
Severity: 8.8 High
Published: Nov 4, 2022
Updated: May 5, 2025
Reserved: Oct 20, 2022

Description

In Splunk Enterprise versions below 8.1.12, 8.2.9, and 9.0.2, an authenticated user can perform an extensible markup language (XML) external entity (XXE) injection via a custom View. The XXE injection causes Splunk Web to embed incorrect documents into an error.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	Splunk

Weaknesses

CWE-611 Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Splunk EnterpriseSplunk	8.1 to before 8.1.12Affected 8.2 to before 8.2.9Affected 9.0 to before 9.0.2Affected

References

https://www.splunk.com/en_us/product-security/announcements/svd-2022-1110.html

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