CVE-2024-45736

Improperly Formatted ‘INGEST_EVAL’ Parameter Crashes Splunk Daemon

State: Published
Severity: 6.5 Medium
Published: Oct 14, 2024
Updated: Feb 28, 2025
Reserved: Sep 5, 2024

Description

In Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.3.1, 9.2.3, and 9.1.6 and Splunk Cloud Platform versions below 9.2.2403.107, 9.1.2312.204, and 9.1.2312.111, a low-privileged user that does not hold the "admin" or "power" Splunk roles could craft a search query with an improperly formatted "INGEST_EVAL" parameter as part of a [Field Transformation](https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Knowledge/Managefieldtransforms) which could crash the Splunk daemon (splunkd).

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-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 EnterpriseSplunk	9.3 to before 9.3.1Affected 9.2 to before 9.2.3Affected 9.1 to before 9.1.6Affected
Splunk Cloud PlatformSplunk	9.2.2403 to before 9.2.2403.107Affected 9.1.2312 to before 9.1.2312.204Affected 9.1.2312 to before 9.1.2312.111Affected

References

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