CVE-2024-22165
Denial of Service in Splunk Enterprise Security of the Investigations manager through Investigation creation
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 6.5 Medium
- Published
- Jan 9, 2024
- Updated
- Feb 28, 2025
- Reserved
- Jan 5, 2024
Description
In Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) versions lower than 7.1.2, an attacker can create a malformed Investigation to perform a denial of service (DoS). The malformed investigation prevents the generation and rendering of the Investigations manager until it is deleted.<br>The vulnerability requires an authenticated session and access to create an Investigation. It only affects the availability of the Investigations manager, but without the manager, the Investigations functionality becomes unusable for most users.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 6.5 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | Splunk |
Weaknesses
- CWE-20 The product does not validate or incorrectly validates input that can affect the control flow or data flow of a program.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
Splunk Enterprise Security (ES)Splunk |
|
References
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