Vulnerabilities > CVE-2022-43563 - Unspecified vulnerability in Splunk and Splunk Cloud Platform

CVSS 8.8 - HIGH

Attack vector

NETWORK

Attack complexity

LOW

Privileges required

NONE

Confidentiality impact

HIGH

Integrity impact

HIGH

Availability impact

HIGH

network

low complexity

splunk

NVD

Published: 2022-11-04

Updated: 2023-11-07

Summary

In Splunk Enterprise versions below 8.2.9 and 8.1.12, the way that the rex search command handles field names lets an attacker bypass SPL safeguards for risky commands https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/SplunkCloud/latest/Security/SPLsafeguards . The vulnerability requires the attacker to phish the victim by tricking them into initiating a request within their browser. The attacker cannot exploit the vulnerability at will.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part	Description	Count
Application	Splunk Splunk Splunk 8.2.0 Splunk Splunk 8.1.0 Splunk Splunk 8.1.1 Splunk Splunk 8.1.2 Splunk Splunk 8.1.4 Splunk Splunk 8.1.5 Splunk Splunk 8.1.6 Splunk Splunk 8.1.7 Splunk Splunk Cloud Platform - Splunk Splunk Cloud Platform 8.1.2103 Splunk Splunk Cloud Platform 8.2.2105 Splunk Splunk Cloud Platform 8.2.2106 Splunk Splunk Cloud Platform 8.2.2107 Splunk Splunk Cloud Platform 8.2.2109 Splunk Splunk Cloud Platform 8.2.2111 Splunk Splunk Cloud Platform 8.2.2112 Splunk Splunk Cloud Platform 8.2.2201 Splunk Splunk Cloud Platform 8.2.2202 Splunk Splunk Cloud Platform 8.2.2203	19

References

https://www.splunk.com/en_us/product-security/announcements/svd-2022-1103.html