CVE-2023-40593

Summary

In Splunk Enterprise versions lower than 9.0.6 and 8.2.12, a malicious actor can send a malformed security assertion markup language (SAML) request to the /saml/acs REST endpoint which can cause a denial of service through a crash or hang of the Splunk daemon.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
SplunkSplunk Enterprise8.2 < 8.2.12affected
SplunkSplunk Enterprise9.0 < 9.0.6affected
SplunkSplunk Cloud- < 9.0.2205affected

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.

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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