Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-36990

MediumPublic PoCDDoS

Published: 01 July 2024

Published
01 July 2024
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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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 0.0087 75.6th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-36990 is a medium-severity Infinite Loop (CWE-835) vulnerability in Splunk Splunk. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 24.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

In Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.2.2, 9.1.5, and 9.0.10 and Splunk Cloud Platform versions below 9.2.2403.100, an authenticated, low-privileged user that does not hold the admin or power Splunk roles could send a specially crafted HTTP POST request to the…

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datamodel/web REST endpoint in Splunk Enterprise, potentially causing a denial of service.

CWE(s)
CWE-835

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

splunk
splunk
9.0.0 — 9.0.10 · 9.1.0 — 9.1.5 · 9.2.0 — 9.2.2
splunk
splunk cloud platform
9.1.2308 — 9.1.2308.209 · 9.1.2312.100 — 9.1.2312.109 · 9.1.2312.200 — 9.1.2312.202

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.

CP-7 Alternate Processing Site
addresses: CWE-835

Enables transfer to alternate site if an infinite loop at the primary renders processing unavailable.

SC-5 Denial-of-service Protection
addresses: CWE-835

Detects and mitigates infinite loops that produce sustained resource consumption.

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