What is CVE-2024-36992?

CVE-2024-36992 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Splunk, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2024-07-01.

How severe is CVE-2024-36992?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.

XSS in Splunk

CVE-2024-36992

In Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.2.2, 9.1.5, and 9.0.10 and Splunk Cloud Platform versions below 9.1.2312.200 and 9.1.2308.207, a low-privileged user that does not hold the admin or power Splunk roles could craft a malicious payload through a View that could result in execution of unauthorized JavaScript code in the browser of a user. The “url” parameter of the Dashboard element does not have proper input validation to reject invalid URLs, which could lead to a Persistent Cross-site Scripting (XSS) exploit.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.003 (22.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

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

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

prodsec@splunk.com (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-36992?: CVE-2024-36992 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Splunk, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2024-07-01.
How severe is CVE-2024-36992?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.