CVE-2023-40593

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    CVE-2023-40593

    Published: 30 Aug 2023Last Modified: 11 Mar 2026

    Summary:

    Details: In Splunk Enterprise versions lower than 9.0.6 and 8.2.12, a malicious actor can send a malformed security assertion markup language (SAML) request to the `/saml/acs` REST endpoint which can cause a denial of service through a crash or hang of the Splunk daemon.

    References: , https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2023-0802, https://research.splunk.com/application/8e8a86d5-f323-4567-95be-8e817e2baee6/

    Affected packages

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    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
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    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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