Riskcovery

CVE-2023-40594

Denial of Service (DoS) via the ‘printf’ Search Function

State
Published
Severity
6.5 Medium
Published
Aug 30, 2023
Updated
Feb 28, 2025
Reserved
Aug 16, 2023

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Description

In Splunk Enterprise versions lower than 8.2.12, 9.0.6, and 9.1.1, an attacker can use the `printf` SPL function to perform a denial of service (DoS) against the Splunk Enterprise instance.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.16.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:HSplunk

Weaknesses

  • CWE-400 The software does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Splunk EnterpriseSplunk
  • 8.2 to before 8.2.12Affected
  • 9.0 to before 9.0.6Affected
  • 9.1 to before 9.1.1Affected
Splunk CloudSplunk
  • - to before 9.0.2303.100Affected

References

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