Critical severity · published Jun 15, 2022
CVE-2022-32158
Splunk Enterprise deployment servers in versions before 8.1.10.1, 8.2.6.1, and 9.0 let clients deploy forwarder bundles to other deployment clients through the deployment server
10.0
CVSS
1.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Splunk Enterprise deployment servers in versions before 8.1.10.1, 8.2.6.1, and 9.0 let clients deploy forwarder bundles to other deployment clients through the deployment server. An attacker that compromised a Universal Forwarder endpoint could use the vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on all other Universal Forwarder endpoints subscribed to the deployment server.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.5% · higher than 74% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
SP
Splunk · Splunk
before 9.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-32158
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-32158
Release Notes
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/9.0.0/Security/Updates
Vendor Advisory
https://www.splunk.com/en_us/product-security/announcements/svd-2022-0608.html
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