Resource exhaustion in Splunk Enterprise - CVE-2024-45736
Published: October 15, 2024
Vulnerability identifier: #VU98535
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-45736
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Splunk Inc.
Affected software:
Splunk Enterprise
Splunk Enterprise
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources. A remote user can initiate a search query with an improperly-formatted “INGEST_EVAL” parameter as part of a Field Transformation and crash the Splunk daemon (splunkd).
How to mitigate CVE-2024-45736
Install updates from vendor's website.