What is CVE-2022-26889?

CVE-2022-26889 is a high-severity vulnerability in Splunk Enterprise, classified under Improper Input Validation. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2022-05-06.

How severe is CVE-2022-26889?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.

Improper input validation in Splunk Enterprise

CVE-2022-26889

In Splunk Enterprise versions before 8.1.2, the uri path to load a relative resource within a web page is vulnerable to path traversal. It allows an attacker to potentially inject arbitrary content into the web page (e.g., HTML Injection…

Vulnerability class: Drupalgeddon 2 (CVE-2018-7600)

EPSS: 0.001 (34.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Splunk Enterprise — versions Version(s) before 8.1.2

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation

References

www.splunk.com/en_us/product-security/announcements/svd-2022-0506.html (x_refsource_MISC)
research.splunk.com/application/path_traversal_spl_injection/ (x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-26889?: CVE-2022-26889 is a high-severity vulnerability in Splunk Enterprise, classified under Improper Input Validation. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2022-05-06.
How severe is CVE-2022-26889?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.