What is CVE-2023-40597?

CVE-2023-40597 is a high-severity vulnerability in Splunk Cloud, classified under Absolute Path Traversal. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2023-08-30.

How severe is CVE-2023-40597?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.

Is CVE-2023-40597 known to be exploited?

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

Path Traversal in Splunk Cloud

CVE-2023-40597

In Splunk Enterprise versions lower than 8.2.12, 9.0.6, and 9.1.1, an attacker can exploit an absolute path traversal to execute arbitrary code that is located on a separate disk.

EPSS: 0.001 (20.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Splunk Cloud
Splunk Enterprise — versions 8.2, 9.0, 9.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-36 — Absolute Path Traversal

Public proof-of-concept exploits

fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-40597?: CVE-2023-40597 is a high-severity vulnerability in Splunk Cloud, classified under Absolute Path Traversal. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2023-08-30.
How severe is CVE-2023-40597?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2023-40597 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.