What is CVE-2024-36990?

CVE-2024-36990 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Splunk, classified under Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop). CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2024-07-01.

How severe is CVE-2024-36990?

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

Vulnerability in Splunk

CVE-2024-36990

In Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.2.2, 9.1.5, and 9.0.10 and Splunk Cloud Platform versions below 9.2.2403.100, an authenticated, low-privileged user that does not hold the admin or power Splunk roles could send a specially crafted HTTP POST request to the datamodel/web REST endpoint in Splunk Enterprise, potentially causing a denial of service.

Published 2024-07-01 · last modified 2026-06-17.

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.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.007 (50.8th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 51st percentile — 50.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.007 · newest: 0.007 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Splunk
Splunk Cloud Platform — versions 9.1.2312, 9.1.2308
Splunk Cloud Platform
Splunk Enterprise — versions 9.2, 9.1, 9.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-835 — Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop)

References

advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2024-0710 (Vendor Advisory)
research.splunk.com/application/45766810-dbb2-44d4-b889-b4ba3ee0d1f5 (Exploit, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-36990?: CVE-2024-36990 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Splunk, classified under Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop). CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2024-07-01.
How severe is CVE-2024-36990?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.