CVE-2023-40598

    Dashboard / Vulnerabilities / CVE-2023-40598

    CVE-2023-40598

    Published: 30 Aug 2023Last Modified: 13 Mar 2026

    Summary:

    Details: In Splunk Enterprise versions below 8.2.12, 9.0.6, and 9.1.1, an attacker can create an external lookup that calls a legacy internal function. The attacker can use this internal function to insert code into the Splunk platform installation directory. From there, a user can execute arbitrary code on the Splunk platform Instance.

    References: , https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2023-0807, https://research.splunk.com/application/ee69374a-d27e-4136-adac-956a96ff60fd/

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    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
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
    CVE-2023-40598 | CVE-DB