What is CVE-2023-40598?

CVE-2023-40598 is a high-severity vulnerability in Splunk Cloud, classified under Command Injection. CVSS score: 8.5/10. Published 2023-08-30.

How severe is CVE-2023-40598?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.5 out of 10.

RCE in Splunk Cloud

CVE-2023-40598

In Splunk Enterprise versions below 8.2.12, 9.0.6, and 9.1.1, an attacker can create an external lookup that calls a legacy internal function. The attacker can use this internal function to insert code into the Splunk platform installation…

Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)

EPSS: 0.001 (29.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/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-77 — Command Injection

References

advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2023-0807
research.splunk.com/application/ee69374a-d27e-4136-adac-956a96ff60fd/

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-40598?: CVE-2023-40598 is a high-severity vulnerability in Splunk Cloud, classified under Command Injection. CVSS score: 8.5/10. Published 2023-08-30.
How severe is CVE-2023-40598?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.5 out of 10.