CVE-2022-43561
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 8.1.12, 8.2.9, and 9.0.2, a remote user that holds the “power” Splunk role can store arbitrary scripts that can lead to persistent cross-site scripting (XSS). The vulnerability affects instances with Splunk Web enabled.
- Affected products
- Splunk Enterprise
- Splunk
- < 8.1.12, 8.2.9, 9.0.2
- Splunk Splunk Cloud Platform
- < 9.0.2208
- Fix
- Available
- CVSS 3.1
- 6.4 MEDIUM
- EPSS
- 0.7% (49th percentile)
- Weakness
- CWE-79
- NVD status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-11-03
Workaround
If users do not log in to Splunk Web on indexers in a distributed environment, disable Splunk Web on those indexers. See Disable unnecessary Splunk Enterprise components https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.2.5/Security/DisableunnecessarySplunkcomponents and the web.conf https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/Webconf configuration specification file for more information on disabling Splunk Web.
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