CVE-2023-40593 (GCVE-0-2023-40593)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-08-30 16:19
Modified
2025-02-28 11:03
Severity ?
6.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-400 - The software does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources.
Summary
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.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Splunk Splunk Enterprise Version: 8.2   < 8.2.12
Version: 9.0   < 9.0.6
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