CVE-2023-40596

Splunk Enterprise on Windows Privilege Escalation due to Insecure OPENSSLDIR Build Definition Reference in DLL

State: Published
Severity: 7.0 High
Published: Aug 30, 2023
Updated: Feb 28, 2025
Reserved: Aug 16, 2023

Description

In Splunk Enterprise versions earlier than 8.2.12, 9.0.6, and 9.1.1, a dynamic link library (DLL) that ships with Splunk Enterprise references an insecure path for the OPENSSLDIR build definition. An attacker can abuse this reference and subsequently install malicious code to achieve privilege escalation on the Windows machine.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.0 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	Splunk

Weaknesses

CWE-665 The software does not initialize or incorrectly initializes a resource, which might leave the resource in an unexpected state when it is accessed or used.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Splunk EnterpriseSplunk	8.2 to before 8.2.12Affected 9.0 to before 9.0.6Affected 9.1 to before 9.1.1Affected

References

https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2023-0805

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