Splunk Enterprise and Cloud Platform
CVE-2023-22940: SPL Command Safeguards Bypass via the ‘collect’ SPL Command Aliases in Splunk Enterprise
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 8.1.13, 8.2.10, and 9.0.4, aliases of the ‘collect’ search processing language (SPL) command, including ‘summaryindex’, ‘sumindex’, ‘stash’,’ mcollect’, and ‘meventcollect’, were not designated as safeguarded commands.
Published
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Affected and fixed versions
| Product / branch | Fixed in |
|---|---|
| Splunk Enterprise 8.1 | 8.1.13 or later |
| Splunk Enterprise 8.2 | 8.2.10 or later |
| Splunk Enterprise 9.0 | 9.0.4 or later |
| Splunk Cloud Platform - | 9.0.2212 or later |
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What it is
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 8.1.13, 8.2.10, and 9.0.4, aliases of the ‘collect’ search processing language (SPL) command, including ‘summaryindex’, ‘sumindex’, ‘stash’,’ mcollect’, and ‘meventcollect’, were not designated as safeguarded commands. The commands could potentially allow for the exposing of data to a summary index that unprivileged users could access. The vulnerability requires a higher privileged user to initiate a request within their browser, and only affects instances with Splunk Web enabled.
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