CVE-2024-36985
Published: 01 July 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-36985 is a high-severity Function Call With Incorrectly Specified Argument Value (CWE-687) vulnerability in Splunk Splunk. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).
Operationally, ranked in the top 2.2% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
CVE-2024-36985 affects Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.2.2, 9.1.5, and 9.0.10. The flaw permits a low-privileged user without the admin or power roles to trigger remote code execution by crafting an external lookup that references the splunk_archiver application. The issue carries a CVSS 3.1 score of 8.8 and is associated with CWE-687.
A low-privileged attacker with network access can exploit the vulnerability without user interaction to execute arbitrary code on the Splunk instance, achieving full confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact.
Splunk advisory SVD-2024-0705 and the associated research note at research.splunk.com detail the affected versions and direct administrators to apply the listed patches. The EPSS score reached a peak of 0.5477 before receding to its current value of 0.4776.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-36373
Vulnerability details
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.2.2, 9.1.5, and 9.0.10, a low-privileged user that does not hold the admin or power Splunk roles could cause a Remote Code Execution through an external lookup that references the “splunk_archiver“ application.
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Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.