CVE-2023-32706

Denial Of Service due to Untrusted XML Tag in XML Parser within SAML Authentication

State: Published
Severity: 7.7 High
Published: Jun 1, 2023
Updated: Feb 28, 2025
Reserved: May 11, 2023

Description

On Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.0.5, 8.2.11, and 8.1.14, an unauthenticated attacker can send specially-crafted messages to the XML parser within SAML authentication to cause a denial of service in the Splunk daemon.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.7 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H	Splunk

Weaknesses

CWE-611 The software processes an XML document that can contain XML entities with URIs that resolve to documents outside of the intended sphere of control, causing the product to embed incorrect documents into its output.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Splunk EnterpriseSplunk	8.1 to before 8.1.14Affected 8.2 to before 8.2.11Affected 9.0 to before 9.0.5Affected
Splunk Cloud PlatformSplunk	9.0.2303 and below to before 9.0.2303.100Affected

References

https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2023-0601

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