Cross-site request forgery in Splunk Enterprise - CVE-2022-43565
Published: November 2, 2022
Vulnerability identifier: #VU68944
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-43565
CWE-ID: CWE-352
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site request forgery attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of the HTTP request origin. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted web page and perform arbitrary actions on behalf of the victim on the vulnerable website and bypass implemented SPL restrictions via the ‘tstats’ command.
Affected software
Splunk Enterprise
How to mitigate CVE-2022-43565
Install updates from vendor's website.
Splunk Enterprise - addressed in versions 8.1.12, 8.2.9