CVE-2024-36982

Denial of Service through null pointer reference in “cluster/config” REST endpoint

State: Published
Severity: 7.5 High
Published: Jul 1, 2024
Updated: Feb 28, 2025
Reserved: May 30, 2024

Description

In Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.2.2, 9.1.5, and 9.0.10 and Splunk Cloud Platform versions below 9.1.2312.109 and 9.1.2308.207, an attacker could trigger a null pointer reference on the cluster/config REST endpoint, which could result in a crash of the Splunk daemon.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.5 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	Splunk

Weaknesses

CWE-476 A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Splunk EnterpriseSplunk	9.2 to before 9.2.2Affected 9.1 to before 9.1.5Affected 9.0 to before 9.0.10Affected
Splunk Cloud PlatformSplunk	9.1.2312 to before 9.1.2312.109Affected 9.1.2308 to before 9.1.2308.207Affected

References

https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2024-0702

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