CVE-2024-22164
Denial of Service of an Investigation in Splunk Enterprise Security through Investigation attachments
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 4.3 Medium
- Published
- Jan 9, 2024
- Updated
- Jun 3, 2025
- Reserved
- Jan 5, 2024
Description
In Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) versions below 7.1.2, an attacker can use investigation attachments to perform a denial of service (DoS) to the Investigation. The attachment endpoint does not properly limit the size of the request which lets an attacker cause the Investigation to become inaccessible.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 4.3 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L | Splunk |
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
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
Splunk Enterprise Security (ES)Splunk |
|
References
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