CVE-2023-40593

high

Description

In Splunk Enterprise versions lower than 9.0.6 and 8.2.12, a malicious actor can send a malformed security assertion markup language (SAML) request to the `/saml/acs` REST endpoint which can cause a denial of service through a crash or hang of the Splunk daemon.

References

https://research.splunk.com/application/8e8a86d5-f323-4567-95be-8e817e2baee6/

https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2023-0802

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-08-30

Updated: 2024-04-10

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High