Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-37439

Medium

Published: 16 August 2022

Published
16 August 2022
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0011 29.6th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-37439 is a medium-severity Data Amplification (CWE-409) vulnerability in Splunk Splunk. Its CVSS base score is 5.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 29.6th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

In Splunk Enterprise and Universal Forwarder versions in the following table, indexing a specially crafted ZIP file using the file monitoring input can result in a crash of the application. Attempts to restart the application would result in a crash…

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and would require manually removing the malformed file.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

splunk
splunk
8.1.0 — 8.1.11 · 8.2.0 — 8.2.7.1
splunk
universal forwarder
8.1.0 — 8.1.11 · 8.2.0 — 8.2.7.1

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-409

Limits effects of data amplification from compressed or malicious inputs.

References