Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-22941

Medium

Published: 14 February 2023

Published
14 February 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0136 80.6th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-22941 is a medium-severity Uncaught Exception (CWE-248) vulnerability in Splunk Splunk. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 19.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

In Splunk Enterprise versions below 8.1.13, 8.2.10, and 9.0.4, an improperly-formatted ‘INGEST_EVAL’ parameter in a Field Transformation crashes the Splunk daemon (splunkd).

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 — 8.1.13 · 8.2.0 — 8.2.10 · 9.0.0 — 9.0.4
splunk
splunk cloud platform
≤ 9.0.2209.3

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-248

Prevents abrupt termination from uncaught exceptions by requiring a defined, preserved-state failure mode.

addresses: CWE-248

Requires pre-defined safe responses for uncaught exceptions so they do not result in undefined or insecure program termination.

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