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CVE-2023-40593

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CVE-2023-40593

Published: Aug 30, 2023

Modified: Feb 28, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

6.3

MEDIUM

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.

VendorProductVersions

Splunk

Splunk Enterprise

affected
8.2 - < 8.2.12
affected
9.0 - < 9.0.6

Splunk

Splunk Cloud

affected
- - < 9.0.2205

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

High

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Changed

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

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