Medium severity · published Feb 14, 2023
CVE-2023-22942
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 8.1.13, 8.2.10, and 9.0.4, a cross-site request forgery in the Splunk Secure Gateway (SSG) app in the ‘kvstore_client’ REST endpoint lets a…
4.3
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 8.1.13, 8.2.10, and 9.0.4, a cross-site request forgery in the Splunk Secure Gateway (SSG) app in the ‘kvstore_client’ REST endpoint lets a potential attacker update SSG KV store collections using an HTTP GET request.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
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 8.1.13; 8.2.0 before 8.2.10; 9.0.0 before 9.0.4 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-22942
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-22942
Vendor Advisory
https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2023-0212
Vendor Advisory
https://research.splunk.com/application/4742d5f7-ce00-45ce-9c79-5e98b43b4410/
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