Enterprise Security and SOAR
CVE-2024-22165: Denial of Service in Splunk Enterprise Security of the Investigations manager through Investigation creation
In Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) versions lower than 7.1.2, an attacker can create a malformed Investigation to perform a denial of service (DoS).
Published
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Affected and fixed versions
| Product / branch | Fixed in |
|---|---|
| Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) 7.3 | 7.3.0 or later |
| Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) 7.2 | 7.2.0 or later |
| Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) 7.1 | 7.1.2 or later |
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What it is
In Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) versions lower than 7.1.2, an attacker can create a malformed Investigation to perform a denial of service (DoS). The malformed investigation prevents the generation and rendering of the Investigations manager until it is deleted.<br>The vulnerability requires an authenticated session and access to create an Investigation. It only affects the availability of the Investigations manager, but without the manager, the Investigations functionality becomes unusable for most users.
Sources
KEV status, EPSS score and vendor data refreshed automatically, last on 13 Oct 2026.