Medium severity · published Aug 16, 2022
CVE-2022-37439
In Splunk Enterprise and Universal Forwarder versions in the following table, indexing a specially crafted ZIP file using the file monitoring input can result in a crash of the…
5.5
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
In Splunk Enterprise and Universal Forwarder versions in the following table, indexing a specially crafted ZIP file using the file monitoring input can result in a crash of the application. Attempts to restart the application would result in a crash and would require manually removing the malformed file.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 10% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
SP
Splunk · Splunk
8.1.0 before 8.1.11; 8.2.0 before 8.2.7.1 · source: NVD
UF
Universal Forwarder · Splunk
8.1.0 before 8.1.11; 8.2.0 before 8.2.7.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-37439
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-37439
Vendor Advisory
https://research.splunk.com/application/b237d393-2f57-4531-aad7-ad3c17c8b041
Vendor Advisory
https://www.splunk.com/en_us/product-security/announcements/svd-2022-0803.html
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