Splunk Enterprise Patches High-Severity Vulnerability - 20240124001¶
Overview¶
Splunk has released information about a High severity vulnerability affecting Splunk Enterprise for Windows.
What is vulnerable?¶
| CVE ID | Product(s) Affected | Summary | Severity | CVSS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2024-23678 | Splunk Enterprise for Windows versions below 9.0.8 and 9.1.3 | Splunk Enterprise for Windows does not correctly sanitize path input data. This results in the unsafe deserialization of untrusted data from a separate disk partition on the machine. This vulnerability only affects Splunk Enterprise for Windows. | High | 7.5 |
What has been observed?¶
There is no evidence of exploitation affecting Western Australian Government networks at the time of publishing.
Recommendation¶
The WA SOC recommends administrators apply the solutions as per vendor instructions to all affected devices within expected timeframe of one month... (refer Patch Management):
- https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2024-0108
Additional References¶
- SecurityWeek: https://www.securityweek.com/high-severity-vulnerability-patched-in-splunk-enterprise/