What is CVE-2022-37437?

CVE-2022-37437 is a high-severity vulnerability in Splunk, classified under Improper Certificate Validation. CVSS score: 7.4/10. Published 2022-08-16.

How severe is CVE-2022-37437?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.4 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Splunk

CVE-2022-37437

When using Ingest Actions to configure a destination that resides on Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) in Splunk Web, TLS certificate validation is not correctly performed and tested for the destination. The vulnerability only affects connections between Splunk Enterprise and an Ingest Actions Destination through Splunk Web and only applies to environments that have configured TLS certificate validation. It does not apply to Destinations configured directly in the outputs.conf configuration file. The vulnerability affects Splunk Enterprise version 9.0.0 and does not affect versions below 9.0.0, including the 8.1.x and 8.2.x versions.

Vulnerability class: Improper Certificate Validation

EPSS: 0.004 (31.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.4 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N.

Affected products

Splunk — versions 9.0.0
Splunk Enterprise — versions 9.0.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-295 — Improper Certificate Validation

References

prodsec@splunk.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-37437?: CVE-2022-37437 is a high-severity vulnerability in Splunk, classified under Improper Certificate Validation. CVSS score: 7.4/10. Published 2022-08-16.
How severe is CVE-2022-37437?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.4 out of 10.