What is CVE-2023-46214?

CVE-2023-46214 is a high-severity vulnerability in Splunk Cloud, classified under XML Injection (Blind XPath Injection). CVSS score: 8.0/10. Published 2023-11-16.

How severe is CVE-2023-46214?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.0 out of 10.

Is CVE-2023-46214 known to be exploited?

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

XPath Injection in Splunk Cloud

CVE-2023-46214

In Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.0.7 and 9.1.2, Splunk Enterprise does not safely sanitize extensible stylesheet language transformations (XSLT) that users supply. This means that an attacker can upload malicious XSLT which can result…

EPSS: 0.879 (99.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.0 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Splunk Cloud
Splunk Enterprise — versions 9.0, 9.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-91 — XML Injection (Blind XPath Injection)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-46214?: CVE-2023-46214 is a high-severity vulnerability in Splunk Cloud, classified under XML Injection (Blind XPath Injection). CVSS score: 8.0/10. Published 2023-11-16.
How severe is CVE-2023-46214?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.0 out of 10.
Is CVE-2023-46214 known to be exploited?: 33 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.