What is CVE-2023-22941?

CVE-2023-22941 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Splunk, classified under CWE-248. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2023-02-14.

How severe is CVE-2023-22941?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Is CVE-2023-22941 known to be exploited?

3 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Vulnerability in Splunk

CVE-2023-22941

In Splunk Enterprise versions below 8.1.13, 8.2.10, and 9.0.4, an improperly-formatted ‘INGEST_EVAL’ parameter in a Field Transformation crashes the Splunk daemon (splunkd).

EPSS: 0.010 (60.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Splunk
Splunk Cloud Platform
Splunk Splunk_cloud_platform
Splunk Enterprise — versions 8.1, 8.2, 9.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-248

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

prodsec@splunk.com (Vendor Advisory)
prodsec@splunk.com (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-22941?: CVE-2023-22941 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Splunk, classified under CWE-248. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2023-02-14.
How severe is CVE-2023-22941?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2023-22941 known to be exploited?: 3 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.